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radioacoustick / Coil64

Coil64 is inductance coil calculator, that allows to calculate the single-layer and multi-layer air core inductors, the ferrite core inductors or chokes, planar coils on PCB etc.
https://coil32.net
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Possible GPL-v3/Icons8 License Violation #7

Open winnieXY opened 5 months ago

winnieXY commented 5 months ago

Hey,

first of all: sorry for that lengthy bug report and thanks for that great piece of software :-)

I'll love to work with coil64 and thought it might be a good idea to make it known to a broader audience by packaging it for debian and ubuntu. The result looks great so far, however doing some license checks I found out that you used the free icons from icons8 which require you to put a text into your code to link them.

This has several disadvantages:

However, there might be a very easy fix. According to the icons8 license website it should be possible for "established open-source projects" to get the license under a open-source license:

Open-source Established open-source projects can get our graphics for free. For you, we'll open-source the needed resources.

This however needs interaction (I guess) from you: There is a "contact us" link on that website. To resolve this issue it might be as easy as just requesting a open-source license for coil64 and the used icons. (At least I hope that).

Again, thanks for your great work & 73!

Patrick (DJ1PW)

radioacoustick commented 4 months ago

Hello Patrick. Thank you for drawing attention to the conflict with the licenses. I contacted the icons8 website with a question about the license and a link to this page. As a result, they gave me free access to download icon images for three months. Questions regarding the license remained unanswered. I think to avoid any possible license mismatch, I should replace icons8 free icons with my own. Moreover, the app already contains such icons. I'll post here when it's done.

radioacoustick commented 3 months ago

The latest release of the application in 2.2.32 uses a set of icons with the prefix ico2-, which were created from of icons8 icons asset under the Good boy license using the Inkspace program. The GPLv3 license does not say about free image assets. The Good boy license permits changing images. So, the license's comparability is still under the question.