Possible GPL-v3/Icons8 License Violation

[winnieXY]

Hey,

first of all: sorry for that lengthy bug report and thanks for that great piece of software :-)

I'll love to work with coil64 and thought it might be a good idea to make it known to a broader audience by packaging it for debian and ubuntu. The result looks great so far, however doing some license checks I found out that you used the free icons from icons8 which require you to put a text into your code to link them.

This has several disadvantages:

• Your software is gpl-v3+, which allows users to use and modify your code freely. So in theory a user could modify the code in a way to remove the link to icons8 (which would be allowed by GPL-v3 but not by icons8 License.
• Currently it is impossible to ship the software in ubuntu or debian (or any other linux distro) due to the license issues

However, there might be a very easy fix. According to the icons8 license website it should be possible for "established open-source projects" to get the license under a open-source license:

Open-source
Established open-source projects can get our graphics for free. For you, we'll open-source the needed resources.

This however needs interaction (I guess) from you: There is a "contact us" link on that website. To resolve this issue it might be as easy as just requesting a open-source license for coil64 and the used icons. (At least I hope that).

Again, thanks for your great work & 73!

Patrick (DJ1PW)

[radioacoustick]

Hello Patrick.
Thank you for drawing attention to the conflict with the licenses. I contacted the icons8 website with a question about the license and a link to this page. As a result, they gave me free access to download icon images for three months. Questions regarding the license remained unanswered. I think to avoid any possible license mismatch, I should replace icons8 free icons with my own. Moreover, the app already contains such icons.
I'll post here when it's done.

[radioacoustick]

The latest release of the application in 2.2.32 uses a set of icons with the prefix ico2-, which were created from of icons8 icons asset under the Good boy license using the Inkspace program. The GPLv3 license does not say about free image assets. The Good boy license permits changing images. So, the license's comparability is still under the question.

[winnieXY]

According to the package.json the license is CC-by-SA 4.0, which is good. The repository seems quite dead to me, maybe a merge request will work - we'll see :-)

[radioacoustick]

The Icons8 team have added a MIT license. I've added a link to the icons used and link to the MIT license in the app. I hope this is enough to close the issue.