From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Why is emacs so square?" Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:59:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83d086cu05.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8wXYP4GY9hwW-9mYv6_LGMETZ8Vz3Ob1Bec6yh6kPT7yxjTkxA3V6dXY4ELra9tYiJUxJmgXKSIEX4w8HFiPRoeGVSQHDSoBVy1voj1e3Qo=@protonmail.com> <833694f29y.fsf@gnu.org> <4amRIW9fznS6sa3th4xPABzua9LQDlNPeIFxVsGYdq_wsg4-Ea1l9sEP-T6QrnO5QMV3jhgrnAspk2mSIC7COlodqr04koAcIPYPLLmPHFM=@protonmail.com> <83imhzecc5.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2qvcjv6.fsf@gnu.org> <83k12ed20s.fsf@gnu.org> <9GxTqx0raB6NkyAQ4gjUHfoCFK4rgmvRKZaUUxM-p6WOuO_3oJOBYiXI4L8pGz-VtHtgYKJ14Z1nU9UmZ68nJLO18nLYnaBaqBxLEaNN9mg=@protonmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="18571"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: ndame Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 12:01:20 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNoG-0004ix-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:01:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44872 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNoF-0001w7-Bd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNnF-0001Gy-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNnE-0005l3-TQ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2808 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jPNn5-00065x-It; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:00:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9GxTqx0raB6NkyAQ4gjUHfoCFK4rgmvRKZaUUxM-p6WOuO_3oJOBYiXI4L8pGz-VtHtgYKJ14Z1nU9UmZ68nJLO18nLYnaBaqBxLEaNN9mg=@protonmail.com> (message from ndame on Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:50:07 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247166 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:50:07 +0000 > From: ndame > Cc: "dgutov@yandex.ru" , "yandros@gmail.com" , "rms@gnu.org" , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" > > > > > Someone™ needs to invest the time and effort to figure out the legal > > issues, find the icons that we want out of those which are legally > > fit, and post the resulting information. We did that process at the > > time (AFAIR, quite a few of our icons come from Gnome/GTK), and it > > wasn't easy. > > What was the problem exactly? Gnome is a venerable free software > project, so I assume they pay attention to proper licensing. I'm sorry, I don't remember. This was many years ago. Please look in the archives. > Isn't their icons safe to use if they publish them with a GPL2 license? IANAL, but I think it has to be GPL v2+ at least. And perhaps we would also need the copyright assigned to the FSF. Once again, this is a non-trivial job to do, a discussion in a mailing list will not solve it, trust me.