[Kde-games-devel] License for carddecks in kdegames

[Luciano Montanaro]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Patrik Karlsson <trixlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Im working on a kind of KDE inspired framework for Java applications
> and Im using some resources from KDE such as translations and
> carddecks from kdegames.
>
> My framework is licensed under GPLv3 but I might go LGPL in the future.
> However, I have a problem finding out the license for the carddecks I
> using. I could not find any information on the svn, and only a couple
> of the decks have AUTHOR and COPYING files installed in my
> distribution.
>
> What is the license of the decks and who made them (I would like to
> give them credit for their work)?
>

Hi I'm the author of the tigullio and xskat-svg decks.

The Tigullio deck is my own work, it is GPL licensed, and I can
relicense it as needed.
I think the license terms are embedded in the svg file as a comment.

The Xskat svg deck is (losely) based on the xskat deck you can find here:

http://www.xskat.de/xskat-cards.html

which is also GPL licensed. I don't know if this makes it a derivative
work of that deck.
It should be safe to use in your project, I think (but it's probably
too "regional" to be used in
international games, however).

You can have a look here too,
I havbe a few variants you may prefer to use.

http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/card-decks/

Some may still need a bit of work...

Luciano
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