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From: Riccardo Mottola <[e-mail]>
To: Ulrich Mueller <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: GNUstep Neos theme license?
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 21:45:05 +0200

Hi Ulrich,

you are right, themes appear not to have an explicit license tag. 
Usually this is done for the code, but of course everything needs a 
license and some themes do not have code, they are just files and 
configurations.

I just noticed that the  Thematic application doesn't save a License tag 
for the theme, which it should. I will file a bug against it.

Consider Neos, Sleek and other theme material (wallpapers, etc) 
mentioned on http://gap.nongnu.org/themes/index.html as licensed under 
GPL v2+, it is all original work by me.

I will add explicit statements on the webpage.

This also reminds me that an explicit release of Sleek is needed (as 
well as an update for Neos...)

I hope this is clear enough.

Riccardo


On 04/30/13 17:19, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a developer for the Gentoo Linux distribution and member of their
> licenses team. Currently we are doing an audit of packages' licenses
> and came across the Neos 0.1 theme for GNUstep.
>
> The package's tarball doesn't seem to include any license information.
> The project page at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gap/ mentions
> GNU GPL version 2 or later, but it is not clear to me if it applies
> also to the themes.
>
> So I wonder if you could clarify if that is the case, or if not, under
> what license the Neos theme is distributed?
>
> There's also an open bug about the issue in our bug tracker:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452416
>
> Kind regards,
> Ulrich Müller


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