LGPL icons

David Vignoni david.vignoni at virgilio.it
Fri Jun 4 19:32:58 CEST 2004


Hello. I've a question about usage of icons released under LGPL.
I'm author of Nuvola Icon Theme, and I've released it under LGPL 2.1 cause 
it is needed for a future inclusion into KDE CVS.

In the readme file I've also added a note about LGPL inspired by the one 
you can read here http://artist.kde.org/new/license.html about KDE Crystal 
icons.

Now, I recive many emails everyday from person asking to use icons taken 
from Nuvola theme for :

	1. personal site
	2. commercial site
	3. shareware application
	4. l/gpled application (and this is the only case I'm sure they can)
	5. web communities
	
What the LGPL license imply in these cases?
Can someone explain to me, I've tried read the LGPL license but I'm italian 
and I don't understand well legal terms of english.

Dave

PS: follow the full readme of nuvola icons:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This copyright and license notice covers the images in this directory.
Note the license notice contains an add-on.
************************************************************************

TITLE:	NUVOLA ICON THEME for KDE 3.x
AUTHOR:	David Vignoni
SITE:	http://www.icon-king.com

Copyright (c)  2003-2004  David Vignoni.

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,
version 2.1 of the License.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library (see the the license.txt file); if not, 
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, 
Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
#######**** NOTE THIS ADD-ON ****#######
The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is written for software libraries
in the first place. The LGPL has to be considered valid for this artwork
library too.
Nuvola icon theme for KDE 3.x 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.
Source code, for this library means:
  - raster png image* .
The LGPL in some sections obliges you to make the files carry
notices. With images this is in some cases impossible or hardly usefull.
With this library a notice is placed at a prominent place in the directory
containing the elements. You may follow this practice.
The exception in section 6 of the GNU Lesser General Public License covers
the use of elements of this art library in a GUI.
dave [at] icon-king.com

Date:		27 april 2004
Version:	1.0 beta

DESCRIPTION:

NUVOLA is an SVG based icon theme.
This mean that all icons where designed with a vector graphics
application and SVG files are available.
Icons of the KDE version of Nuvola are PNG images (unscalable).
SVG files are available at www.icon-king.com from the day 15 may 2004.


LICENSE

Released under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Look at the license.txt file.

CONTACT

David Vignoni	
e-mail :		dave [at] icon-king.com
ICQ :			117761009
http:           	http://www.icon-king.com




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