[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] PDF icon: licensing concern & fix

[Soulliere, Robert]

I wonder if the Evergreen Oversight Board or Communications Committee could help us make the decision on the legality of using the images at KDE? I don't have a comfortable feeling about using it based on what I have read on the KDE site. However, if I get a thumbs up from the  Evergreen Oversight Board, then I would feel at ease and would use the image. Since the DIG had been using a questionable image for the past few years, I would like to be sure about the image choice. If there is any doubt, then I think we need to use the current safe PDF image currently in place.

Thanks,
Robert



Robert Soulliere, BA (Hons), MLIS
Systems Librarian
Mohawk College Library
robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca
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From: open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Yamil Suarez [ysuarez at berklee.edu]
Sent: May 7, 2012 7:20 PM
To: Documentation discussion for Evergreen software
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] PDF icon: licensing concern & fix

On May 7, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote:

> Got it.  This is where it's at: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons/
> .  There is licensing information, and various icons of various
> sizes.  The PDF icon is titled application-pdf.png and is in a
> "mimetypes" folder for a given size.
>
> Alexey Lazar
> PALS
> Information System Developer and Integrator
> 507-389-2907
> http://www.mnpals.org/
>
> On May 7, 2012, at 16:15 , Yamil Suarez wrote:
>

Cool, this is getting us closer, though the copying license attached
to the icons in that collection seems to be only "GNU Lesser General
Public License v. 3 (LGPL)". This could be an issue since our
documentation is CC-BY-SA and not LGPL, but I know there are some
similarities between the two.

Here is the license listed for set of icons Alexey sent in:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons/COPYING?view=markup

I am just trying to play it safe, and would welcome the input from
others more familiar with these type of licensing issues.

Yamil
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