well... the drawing itself doesnt need to be licensed under GPL. It is not adequate to use GPL for drawings. It is sufficient, though, that he uses some free content licence (such as some of the CC licenses)

But I havent seen this explicit anywhere. And I think we should clear this issue.

On Jan 22, 2008 8:21 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
I thought we had specified that the about screen must be licensed
consistently for distribution with Inkscape (e.g. GPL).  If it isn't, we
wouldn't be able to accept it as the winner.

Bryce

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:19:54AM -0200, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> I have seen on the winner about screen metadata that it is marked as
> "proprietary". I can see no citation about free content licensing on its
> page at devianART and I also notice that there was no requirement for free
> content licensing on the contest rules.
>
> This could lead to problems on packaging for debian and other gnu/linux
> distributions that have strict rules about licensing.
> I think that we should add this requirement on the next contest. We should
> also verify which license does needcoffee intend to use on his work (same is
> true for the #2) and update the SVG metadata.
>
> Juca