Templarian / WindowsIcons

Windows Phone and Windows RT CC Icons
http://modernuiicons.com/
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License notes are misleading #226

Closed Wuzzy2 closed 6 years ago

Wuzzy2 commented 6 years ago

From the license notes:

## Understand Your Rights
No Attribution and No Derived Works
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ *

- If your project is open source include this license file in the source.

The last sentence is misleading. As soon you include any of the icons in an open source software, it immediately ceases to be open source. This is because of the ND clause, which is in violation of point 3 in the Open Source Definition (https://opensource.org/definition). Derivated works must be permitted in open source software by definition. In other words, the ND clause is incompatible with open source software.

I don't know why you chose the ND clause, but here's what I suggest:

FYI: These Creative Commons licenses are compatible with open source:

These licenses are incompatible:

Templarian commented 6 years ago

This project is unmaintained, thanks for looking into this, but no updates are being made at this time.

Learn more: #220