<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Liberation Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">As far as me, and/or any of my artwork is concerned - you may freely use it in any manner you may find necessary. I hereby grant you a full permission to use, distribute, re-license, change, or clone the aforementioned piece of my artwork. ( LOL ) Knock yourself out :P<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Sunday 04 of January 2009 15:36:01 Parker Coates wrote:<br>
> Hello folks,<br>
><br>
> All this talk of porting the "Mountain Adventure" theme from Killbots<br>
> to Kapman has reminded me of some questions I meant to ask long ago.<br>
><br>
> First, here's some background information:<br>
> - The sprites in the "Mountain Adventure" theme were first used in a<br>
> Gnobots2 theme (the Gnome version of "robots"). [1]<br>
> - That theme, called "boo" [2], was created by Nicu Buculei. [3]<br>
> - Gnobots2 is a GPL2+ application. The SVG theme file itself doesn't<br>
> contain any explicit copyright or licence.<br>
> - The background is a simplified version of a beautiful background<br>
> it-s posted to kde-look.org. [4]<br>
> - The background is released under the GPL but contains no explicit<br>
> copyright.<br>
><br>
> So my question is what do I (in my Killbots theme) have to do to<br>
> ensure GPL compliance? All files in question are GPL, so I don't think<br>
> there's an issue there, but what do I do about copyrights and<br>
> attribution? If we were talking about source code, I would simply take<br>
> the copyright statements from the "borrowed" source files and include<br>
> them with my own in the new file, but that doesn't work here as<br>
> neither file seems to have a copyright.<br>
><br>
> At moment I simply give credit in the description section of the<br>
> theme's .desktop file ("Sprites by Nicu Buculei. Background by Eugene<br>
> Trounev.") but is that sufficient?<br>
><br>
> This also raises an interesting question about KHNS integration. All<br>
> artwork included in the KDEGames package is GPL by default, but is<br>
> there any license applied to artwork downloaded via KHNS?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Parker<br>
><br>
><br>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/Robots<br>
> [2] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-games/trunk/gnobots2/boo.svg?view=log<br>
> [3] http://markmail.org/message/jrniglsel6pybdit<br>
> [4] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/The+Mountain+Fog?content=42308<br>
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