Icons license
licaon-kter opened this issue · 6 comments
License
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Icons generated with the Android Material Icon Generator are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).
But looking at https://spdx.org/licenses/ this CC-BY-NC-3.0 is neither FSF Free/Libre nor OSI approved.
@Bubu @eighthave Thoughts? This needs Antifeatures: NonFreeAssets I guess
This needs Antifeatures: NonFreeAssets I guess
Sounds right!
@Bubu @eighthave @licaon-kter I need some more info here. "NonFreeAssets" is a real strange label to put on a license that explicitly states it's free to use non-commercially in all forms.
It's also quite rude to not contact me before making merge requests, as I have had no chance to resolve this yet. I don't think handling things like this would do the F-Droid repository, nor its community any good.
I'd rather recreate the icon than have an - imho bureaucracy-nonsense - anti-feature label on the app.
We can always remove that, also this has been an issue for how long? :)
‘NonFreeAssets’ - the application contains and makes use of Non-Free assets. The most common case is apps using artwork - images, sounds, music, etc - under a non-commercial license.
The OP explains the reason, right?
The CC-BY-NC licenses are non-free, see i.e. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_NonCommercial_license
CC BY-NC license is considered non-free
explicitly states it's free to use non-commercially in all forms.
It explicitly forbids commercial redistribution thus taking away the software freedoms as defined by the FSF. There's really nothing strange about this.
@ltguillaume Also, like the earlier DuckDuckGo Tracking "scandal" we can mark per version antifeatures, so once you fix this, older ones will have it but from now on...not.