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 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Not maintained by the gnome herd.
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?
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
# Piotr Jaroszyński <peper@gentoo.org> (06 Jul 2007) # Masked for removal. bug #167379. x11-themes/gdm-themes
So now there are only a few themes available for GDM on Gentoo?
via the portage tree, correct ... nothing is keeping you from installing themes by hand
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!
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 ?
adding Cla as artwork team lead.
(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
I'll take over maintainership of the package, and get the copyright issues fixed.
removed p.mask, kicked out old themes, all new ones with known licenses, committed to CVS.
