From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Why is emacs so square?" Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 04:40:13 +0000 Message-ID: References: <8wXYP4GY9hwW-9mYv6_LGMETZ8Vz3Ob1Bec6yh6kPT7yxjTkxA3V6dXY4ELra9tYiJUxJmgXKSIEX4w8HFiPRoeGVSQHDSoBVy1voj1e3Qo=@protonmail.com> <83368zk3xg.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnc2gqb7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="96014"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "rpluim@gmail.com" , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: "rms@gnu.org" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 21 06:41:05 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 1jQkiX-000Oq8-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 06:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50650 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQkiW-0000Qt-6L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQkhy-0008LX-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQkhx-000303-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail4.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.27]:18978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQkhw-0002vq-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:40:28 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587444024; bh=Kd9DOYN9rpTL0W2f8uMMIiIFjjmKF4djCoKdvHtJkR8=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=TUWf/rw3AKsbwlq9Z0hwcKrUsBIUblKP6hIGC1gwCYrP8ehWZYooL1HHSaut6M2k1 /KM0zYMWY0is6PrE49eeaw9WznP7/o+aRXdk8lw+bWPjpKllh4NH83deeciltlKELQ yrMzlwXoGkAlIbk2sJ/hiKIUeS4rsvZFcuKVU/VQ= In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.27; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail4.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/21 00:40:25 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.70.40.27 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:247449 Archived-At: Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > So since this is the second method, what are the legal requirements > > > from icon files that we bundle with Emacs? Just a free license? > > Yes. Any free license will do, for the icons. I checked the KDE icons too and they have this text for license (excerpts): This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Clarification: The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is written for software libraries in the first place. We expressly want the LGPL to be valid for this artwork library too. KDE Oxygen theme icons is a special kind of software library, it is an artwork library, it's elements can be used in a Graphical User Interface,= or GUI. It contains the later version clause too for LGPL, so I guess the problem of icons is solved. There is a choice too, both of these have this license. Emacs could even offer a choice of icon themes for the user: https://github.com/KDE/oxygen-icons/ https://github.com/KDE/breeze-icons/