Bug 167379 – gdm-themes-2.0-r1 contains undistributable themes

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Arthur Hagen 2007-02-17 20:39:04 UTC]

gdm-themes contains several copyrighted works, for which the submitters have no rights.  An "as-is" license does not imply that copyrighted works can be distributed.

Example:  "Fallen Angel" contains an image by Luis Royo.  (While the luisroyofantasy.com site allows you to download the image for use as a wallpaper, legally downloading it does not make it public domain or transfer copyrights to the downloader.)

Similar for several other themes, which contain works copyrighted by (among others) Blizzard Entertainment.

Suggestion:  Unless upstream can provide a license for each theme, gdm-themes (and probably any 3rd party art.gnome.org content) should be removed from Gentoo.

Reproducible: Always

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[Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-02-18 03:50:30 UTC]

Not maintained by the gnome herd.

[Comment 2 Arthur Hagen 2007-02-18 11:50:14 UTC]

According to Bug 109755 humpback doesn't support gdm-themes anymore, and the gnome herd doesn't want it.
Can someone reassign it to orphaned or find someone to do a coup de grâce on this package?

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-07-03 11:57:13 UTC]

treecleaners, please do your magic. 

13:51:50 <@HumpBack> jakub: How about a remove of gdm-themes from the tree? 
13:52:32 <@jakub> HumpBack: yeah, esp. wrt the licensing issues 
13:52:47 <@jakub> I've had a quick look and it looks like complete mess 
13:53:17 <@HumpBack> jakub: It is. Mail to -dev or just remove the bastard? 
13:53:18 <@jakub> HumpBack: not really keen on 'auditing' which licenses are OK or not
13:53:27 <@jakub> HumpBack: eh, p.masked and then mail
13:54:04 <@jakub> HumpBack: just emphasize in the mail that it will be removed unless someone does identify the unlicensed stuff
                  (which noone will do :P)
13:54:10 <@HumpBack> jakub: whant to please do that. I have no access to my development machine right now     

[Comment 4 Piotr Jaroszyński (RETIRED) 2007-07-06 13:21:57 UTC]

# Piotr Jaroszyński <[e-mail]> (06 Jul 2007)
# Masked for removal. bug #167379.
x11-themes/gdm-themes

[Comment 5 Tad Marko 2007-07-08 15:34:58 UTC]

So now there are only a few themes available for GDM on Gentoo?

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2007-07-08 20:55:59 UTC]

via the portage tree, correct ... nothing is keeping you from installing themes by hand

[Comment 7 Sybren Harmsma 2007-07-09 23:12:45 UTC]

I have created a new and legalized ebuild for the Falling Angel GDM theme
(one of the GDM themes in the now masked x11-themes/gdm-themes)

See bug #184786.

Maintainer wanted!

[Comment 8 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2007-08-09 04:47:30 UTC]

why don't the artwork team takes this ? It's cool to have this teams on the tree i or maybe gnome herd don't mind to maintain it but maybe it could be artwork team job.
What do you think of this ?

[Comment 9 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2007-08-09 05:12:03 UTC]

adding Cla as artwork team lead.

[Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-09 07:16:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> why don't the artwork team takes this ?

I don't think that artwork team will be keen on doing licensing audit on this package. :P

[Comment 11 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) 2007-08-10 22:30:55 UTC]

I'll take over maintainership of the package, and get the copyright issues fixed.

[Comment 12 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) 2007-08-11 21:48:22 UTC]

removed p.mask, kicked out old themes, all new ones with known licenses, committed to CVS.