On 26. Februar 2016, 07:12:06 wrote E. Liddell:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:15:36 +0000
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 25 February 2016 14:06:52 Dr.
Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2016 schrieb Thomas Maus:
> ...
> > * in the face of unchecked copyright status of the various cursors
> > (all
> > came from publicly accessible Web sites, probably all FLOSS -- but who
> > knows ...)
> ...
The unknown copyright/licensing status would make it impossible even if
the manpower were available, I think. Artwork distributed with Trinity
has to be able to go out with the same license as everything else.
Obviously, yet
1. I wrote "unchecked":
"unchecked" == "unverified" != "unknown" !=
"unverifiable"
2. I stated that all are from public source, probably all Open Source affine.
Before I check nigh to hundred cursors on licenses I want to know if this work
is not in vain, and to limit the work of hunting down the copyright status to
those cursor sets actually of interest.
3. even if -- as seems the case for the Oxygen and DMZ variants -- there is no
explicit copyright statement in the cursor sets themselves, the original
themes -- being distributed with common distros -- must have acceptable FLOSS
licenses.
3.1 This then automatically applies to derived works.
3.2 It is a relatively trivial endeavour for me to take the original GPLed
designs, do a little scripting based on ImageMagick for hue-shifting, and
generate the spectrum wanted. The added advantage of this approach is, that I
can previously repair, fine-tune, and (we can) possibly extend the cursor set
(if there are some special cursors missing) once, and then generate a
consistent color set.
The offer to put my work into this stands, the only precondition is that the
development team voices which cursor sets are of interest and would be
included, quality and copyright status allowing ...
To that end, the question is to answer, how those willing to have a look, get
the cursor sets:
1. via private mail
2. via this mailing list
3. as attachment for an improvement on the bug report site
And to avoid any problems for the list and site owner I ask if 2. or 3. would
be OK despite yet unchecked copyright status.
ciao,
ThoMaus