[Mageia-discuss] Is this proper design available with sources ?

AL13N alien at rmail.be
Sun Jun 3 20:18:05 CEST 2012


Op maandag 4 juni 2012 03:57:27 schreef Doug Laidlaw:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 18:44:52 +0200
> 
> Florent Monnier <monnier.florent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Le dimanche 03 juin 2012 10:17:45, Anne Nicolas a écrit :
> > > Hi there
> > > 
> > > Following http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/05/31/background-credits/,
> > > all packages and isos have been updated to use original design.
> > > Packages updates are available as usual for Mageia 2 and Cauldron.
> > > 
> > > Isos were all rebuilt and tested and uploaded yesterday night.
> > > 
> > > Thanks QA team and tmb for all the hard work
> > > 
> > > We need also torrent seeders to update it. A blog post is being
> > > proofreaded to inform about all this.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Do we have the sources for this background now ?
> > 
> > Or is it just free-closed-sourced ?
> 
> From the blog:
> 
> "We have now talked with the original artist, and he has been kind
> enough to relicense his artwork and its derivative for use by Mageia.
> This means that those of us who have installed from the original Mageia
> 2 ISOs are not in breach of his copyright."
> 
> It depends on the term of the license, but to me, that doesn't sound
> like the GPL.  The license allows us to use it only.
> 
> Doug.

relicense means having a different license, the text doesn't mention which one, 
but if the license is good for us, it needs to be at least GPL compatible, so 
i don't think this is a problem.


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