Please package original icons from source

[Alex Murray]

Currently the sensors-applet package (1.7.8) does not contain the original icons which are distributed with the source tarball of the current package (1.7.8), but instead contains old icons from an earlier version.
Please can Ubuntu package the correct icons, especially since the latest source package (1.7.9) contains a bunch of new Tango style icons which integrate much better with the ubuntu-desktop theme.

[Sam Morris (yrro)]

I'm not sure how to request that Ubuntu pull in the original icons.

By the way, do you have the email address of the author of the icons? I'd like to ask him to consider dual-licensing the icons under a DFSG-free license, which would solve this mess in both distributions. :)

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

Did you have any luck contacting the original author - epicbard ? I sent you an email with his address to avoid having to post it in such a public forum.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Upstream icons are licensed with the CC-BY-SA 2.5 license (like all Tango icons), which is not compatible with the DFSG.
These can be checked here:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~fanguelo/tango-sensors-2.tar.gz

@Desktop team: can we consider them for inclusion?

[Sam Morris (yrro)]

It would be better to get the author of the icons to relicense them under the GPL or CC 3.0 licenses or similar. I tried but got no response.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I don't see why he should. They are part of the Tango theme which is ALL licensed with the SA-BY-CC.
The change wrt Debian is minimal, its just a matter of using the tarball from upstream instead of the Debian fiddled one (plus minor mods to copyright and watch).
I built a package without an hitch, screenshots attached.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

The attached debdiff shows the changes necessary to the packaging (beside of course replacing the tarball with the upstream one).

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

@Sam - I have emailed Philip again to see if he would be willing to change the license so will let you know what response I get.
@Cesare - thanks again, your work in improving sensors-applet in Ubuntu is greatly appreciated.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Well, he can always double-license them: SA-BY-CC to make Tango happy and (for instance) GPL to make Debian happy.
Beside that, the only addition he has to make in his license is a statement like:

All derivative works must be released under either or both of these licenses.

But if he doesn't want to do it, I'll be happy to repackage the package for Ubuntu myself.

[Phil A. (epicbard)]

Hey, I am the guy that made the new icons for the sensors app. What would you like me to do other than saying OK to the new license? I can make an archive with the icons and the new license if need be.

[Sam Morris (yrro)]

Hi Phil,

First of all, thanks for considering to release the icons under an additional license.

From my point of view (I produce the packages of sensors-applet that end up in Debian), an unambigous statement that the icons are additionally licensed under a Debian-compatible license would be great. For the sake of simplicity, it would be better if you chose the same terms as the rest of sensors applet (that is, GPL version 2 or higher); but if you would prefer to say with the Creative Commons licenses, the CC BY-SA 3.0 license is also Debian-compatible.

The following text should do it, delete text from the portion in {braces} as applicable:

"I, as the author of the icons used by the GNOME Sensors Applet, state that they are licensed under {the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version/the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license}."

If you have some way to digitally sign the statement (with PGP for instance) it would help, but it's not really necessary.

Note that as Cesare said, this doesn't prevent the original license (CC BY-SA 2.5) from continuing to apply.

Thanks again!

[Phil A. (epicbard)]

Updated to CC BY-SA 3.0

I was not sure about using GPL and if that would have problems with CC or not. I did not want to deal with that.

[Sam Morris (yrro)]

Thank you very much! I will probably have a change to update the Debian package tomorrow; from there it will filter into Ubuntu whenever the next synchronisation from Debian -> Ubuntu takes place.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

We are just now syncing 1.8.1+dfsg-1:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sensors-applet/+bug/156361

We will sync to the new version as soon as available.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

 sensors-applet (1.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * Icons are now licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, which
     is suitable for Debian's main section (closes: #448029).
   * debian/new-upstream script: no longer necessary, removed.
   * debian/watch: call uupdate instead.
   * debian/README.Debian: others have informed me that the procedure for
     building with NVIDIA support works for them, so remove the text requesting
     confirmation that it actually works.
 .
 sensors-applet (1.8.1+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * debian/new-upstream: wrote a python script to automate the job of
     replacing the non-free artwork in upstream's tarball with the GPL-licensed
     artwork from an older release.
   * debian/watch: call this script when there is a new release available.
   * Recommend hddtemp as requested in #431718).