[Bug-freedink] Re: Some FreeDink news and a question

[Seth A. Robinson]

> > Could you clarify if the Dink 32x32 icon in the dink107_source.zip
> > archive is covered by the free license from the included license.txt?

Hi Sylvain,

Looking good!

Yes this icon should be covered by that license, I surely don't want a 32X32 
bmp to hold up the release so let me know if I need to add it to the zlib 
graphic pack or such to make it more legally kosher.

Thanks,

Seth A. Robinson
www.rtsoft.com



Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's some news from the Dink packaging front, and a question about
> the Dink icon :)
>
>
> So, following your release of the Dink scripts and graphics under the
> zlib license, I contacted several GNU/Linux distributions.  My overall
> impression is that new packages take long to get reviewed and
> approved, with lots of time spent on distro-specific policies.
> However, there's already some progress:
>
> - Stefan Dirsch, who already knew Dink, was extremely efficient in
>   accepting my packages in OpenSUSE, and it's now available from the
>   Games repository.
>
> - ArchLinux packages the engine, but not the front-end or the data
>   (Petteri Tolonen is working on it).
>
> - I submitted packages for Debian and Fedora in their respective
>   format/framework.  The review process involves fixing lots of
>   details, hopefully this should be finished within a few weeks.
>
> - I recently submitted packages to Gentoo (in yet another format ;))
>   and I'm expecting a reply soon.
>
> - I started adding replacements for the sounds, see
>   http://www.freedink.org/doc/sounds/
>   I had some fun recoding Claude Debussy's Rêverie and Franz Schubert
>   Serenade D957 to MIDI from the public scores, using Rosegarden :)
>
>
> And I have a question:
>
> It's about a legal clarification for the Dink icon, dink.ico.
>
> The Fedora reviewer checked the different licenses in use and saw the
> Dink 32x32 icon came from the official Dink source (as part of the
> VC++ project resources).
>
> The license.txt mentions that the "Dink Smallwood Media" is not part
> of the source release and not covered by the Dink source license.  So
> he concluded that the Dink icon was maybe not covered by the license.
> This looks bit far-fetched, but well if that's the only problem I
> guess everything else is cristal-clear :)
>
>
> Could you clarify if the Dink 32x32 icon in the dink107_source.zip
> archive is covered by the free license from the included license.txt?
>
>
> To make things easy, I added 'address@hidden', a public
> mailing-list, in carbon copy.  You can reply to the list and I can
> show your answer to the Fedora reviewer.
>
> You can answer yes or no, I designed another quick icon in case
> there's a problem.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>