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System76 Pop icon theme for Linux
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A question about license #16

Closed bylee20 closed 5 years ago

bylee20 commented 6 years ago

I can see that pop icon theme is based on papirus from README.md and papirus is distributed under GPL. As far as I know, any work based on GPLed library should be redistributed under GPL but pop icon them is distributed under LPGL.

Is this license change approved by the original author?

SmartFinn commented 6 years ago

Papirus was distributed under LGPL-3 until January 10, 2018. After that issue PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme#1049 we changed the license to GPL-3 and forget notify the pop-icon-theme. This is our fault.

bylee20 commented 6 years ago

You mean that license notes in this repo are out-dated and pop icon theme follows GPL now?

SmartFinn commented 6 years ago

Is this license change approved by the original author?

@xylosper I just answered this question.

bylee20 commented 6 years ago

I'm very sorry for my bad reading.

Do you mean that the author of pop icon theme is the author of Papirus? In that case, is pop-icon-theme free from the license issue which made Papirus GPL? As far as I can tell, many AUTHOR files in pop-icon-theme refer GPL.

No offense here. I just want to make sure of your meaning because I am not good at English and I don't want to misunderstand it.

jackpot51 commented 6 years ago

@SmartFinn we will adjust the license here to match

bylee20 commented 6 years ago

@jackpot51 Thank you for clear answer.

jackpot51 commented 6 years ago

Leaving open until fix is complete