Modifying a LGPL licensed image to create iPhone app icons.

Question

Hi,

I would like to use icons under the LGPL license in an iPhone application. I want to modify these icons (size, color or more advanced editing) in order to fit my app requirements.

I understand that the modified versions inherit the license. But embedding the app in an iPhone makes it harder to share the images and license files.

My questions are :

• do you credit the authors ? If yes where ? "About" screen ?

• Where do you put the copy of the GNU LGPL text ?

• How do you make your modified version available to the community (under the LGPL license) ? Is it acceptable to publish it on the wikimedia commons ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Is there even an accepted interpretation for what the LGPL means when applied to binary assets like an icon? It's pretty clearly geared for source code, which is the reason a lot of the Creative Commons licenses came about.

Without knowing the answer(s) to the above, I'd say you could create an "About" screen that contained the appropriate copyright acknowledgements, and host the modified versions of the icons on a public web page that is linked from the about screen.