Here is the reply I received after asking for a license change for the wallpapers in old Fedora versions: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] License for wallpapers in old Fedora releases Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:03:19 -0400 From: Tom "spot" Callaway On 07/24/2009 11:28 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: > At the Design-Team we figured it would be handy to provide (perhaps in a > gallery) wallpapers from the old releases, so the users who liked them > can have a handy access at the images. It is also useful to have when > documenting our history. > > However, we have a licensing issue with the images created before the > team establishment, from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora 7, when they were > created behing the closed doors, at the Red Hat Desktop Team. > > My understanding is, being created Red Hat employees as part of their > normal job and included into Fedora, those should have some Free license. So, I should have caught this initially, but Red Hat Legal noticed that all of these images contain the Fedora logo. Accordingly, we can't permit these images to be released under a license which permits modification. So, this means there are two options remaining: 1. We can package up these backgrounds with a license identical to that of the fedora-logos package (basically, right to use, copy, and redistribute, but not modify, with some extra conditions around the Fedora marks). 2. We could take the images and remove the Fedora trademarks from them and release them under a Creative Commons license. Or, we could do both. Let me know what you think, ~spot ------ End Original Message ------ My take: 1. we though mainly about making those available on the web, i think it would be confusing to add various clauses to the license, which very few people will read, understand or care about. it would be preferable to go with a simpler route. 2. we can remove the trademarks only if we have access to the sources, which i am not sure is the case for all the images. with some, like FC6 NDA it may be impossible to remove everything and still retain a good looking image (or it may be, since what we have there is not complying with the guidelines anyway, so what is in there can't be our trademark). -- nicu _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
