Icons license

[licaon-kter]

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

[Bubu]

This needs Antifeatures: NonFreeAssets I guess

Sounds right!

[licaon-kter]

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/7156

[ltguillaume]

@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.

[licaon-kter]

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?

[Bubu]

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.

[licaon-kter]

@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.