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LibreShift / red-moon

Android screen filter app for night time phone use.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add attribution for direct download badge icon #276

Open smichel17 opened 4 years ago

smichel17 commented 4 years ago

I made the direct download badge. The icon is get_app from https://github.com/google/material-design-icons, used under Apache v2. This is compatible with distributing the badge under GPLv3+ like the rest of the project, but still requires attribution, which we don't currently have. I believe Apache v2 also requires us to distribute the full text of the license. So, to do:

flxholle commented 4 years ago

Hi @smichel17 Is it possible to use the direct download badge for my own repositories, if I will add a Link to the Apache License? Also do not forget to add the license in FastHub (https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub).

smichel17 commented 4 years ago

(I saw your email, but I'm a little slow with email responses sometimes; thanks for the reminder :)

The icon I used to create the badge is licensed Apache v2, so in order to follow that license, I need to link back to it (that's what this issue is about). You wouldn't need to, because you're using the badge, not the icon directly.

Red Moon is licensed under the GPLv3 (or later), which means you (or anyone) can use any part of Red Moon (including the badge) as long as the project you're using it in is also licensed under the GPLv3 (or later) and you include some form of attribution (eg, a link back to where you got it from).

Making the badge was a small enough effort that I'm open to offering it under a different license as well, if you want to use it in a project that is not GPL (but, if you don't have a strong opinion about which license to use, I would also encourage you to use the GPL).

smichel17 commented 4 years ago

Also do not forget to add the license in FastHub (https://github.com/k0shk0sh/FastHub).

FastHub is licensed GPLv3, so if you want to use the version there it's the same as here, except that it has no "or later" clause, so if the FSF releases the GPLv4, you wouldn't be able to relicense your project to it. In practice this probably doesn't matter very much :smile:

flxholle commented 4 years ago

Hi @smichel17 thank you very much. I just thought it would be better to ask the original author before I use it anywhere else. Also the projects where I would use that are already under GPLv3 and I think a small attribtution note there should prevent me from all these license problems. :sweat_smile: Also I just mentioned FastHub because the note has to be added there, too :wink:

flxholle commented 4 years ago

Hi @smichel17 I created a summary for all available download-banners: https://github.com/asdoi/download-banners Maybe you can have a look at, if the sample-credit-message for your banner is correct. Thank you

smichel17 commented 4 years ago

Looks good to me :)