Re: SVG version of GDB mascot (archer fish)

Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29T12:41:00Z

> From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:35:57 +0200
>
> Since the SVG is strongly based on the original drawing,
> it seems to me that we can not choose the license independently. The
> original fish is licensed as "CC BY-SA 3.0 US":
>
> http://www.bluebutton.com/misc/archer.comment
>
> So I assume that the SVG version has to be licensed in the same way. In
> my patch I'll update the "mascot" page with the licensing information
> and a link to the license
> (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/).

FWIW, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#OtherLicenses
only mentions CC BY-SA 4.0, so I think we should first find out
whether version 3.0 is GPL-compatible.