On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 07:39:41AM -0700, Máirín Duffy wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Máirín Duffy <mairin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > - None of the source images that you used are referenced. Can you > > please provide references for your source images before uploading > > artwork to the wiki? > > Oh, I found the references, sorry for that. > > The lion picture has a clause that I just want to double check is > okay: > > "Please note that my pictures are under the Creative Commons > license. You are free to use them in any commercial or > non-commercial application, but please send me a message if you used > or plan on using any of my pictures, especially for commercial > purposes. Thanks in advance." > > If he *requires* notice of commercial usage, it may pose a problem > for Fedora resellers, I'll discuss this with Fedora legal to make > sure and perhaps we can talk to the photographer and get his okay if > it would be an issue. The way this license reads, the author is asking (note "please") for a contact, but it's not required as it would be had he used the wording "but you must send me a message...". This doesn't conflict with his clear statement that the recipient is free to use the picture in any application. > The rust texture doesn't have an explicit license. I can try to > contact Jeff to see if he can commit to a specific CC-based license > that's acceptable for Fedora: > > http://www.lostandtaken.com/2008/12/reader-submitted-textures-jeff-foster.html > > Same problem with the spray brushes. The license isn't > explicit. "Free" can mean a lot of things and not all of them > involve the kind of free we need, unfortunately. I can try to > contact them as well. > > http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/freebies/free-hi-res-spraypaint-photoshop-brushes-set-two The licensing statements for the freebies on the site are kept here: http://blogspoon.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/freebies/terms-of-use.html Quoting: ''' You Can: * Use the resources in your personal work, in whole or part. * Use the resources in your commercial work, in whole or part. * Modify the work to your personal preference. * Share the resources with others, under the following terms: o Link to the resource webpage, not the download file. o Use an excerpt from the webpage if necessary (don’t copy * the full article and display it on your site) You Can Not: * You can NOT sell the resources directly for profit (eg. Selling the items on stock resource websites) * You can NOT copy the full webpage and display it on your own website. (Use an excerpt by all means, but please link to the original resource download page – not the actual file.) ''' The part that bothers me about these licensing texts is the statement of terms for sharing: it is unclear about whether you *must* link to his resource web page. It would be much better for the author to use a standard license such as CC-BY-SA or some other more appropriate license, not something he's written himself. > In the future, it would save a lot of work and heartache to make > sure we use work that has explicitly approved licenses. When someone > says something like, "hey guys here u go it's free have it!" it > unfortunately does not count as an explicit license in our > pre-approved list, so we have to go to Fedora legal on a > case-by-case basis and many times contact the authors themselves > (who are not always responsive or even reachable) to clarify the > situation. +1. Especially when there is not much in the way of time or resources free, having to do all this is a real drag, and gets in the way of creating and promoting beautiful art and design. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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