In china, they don't care about copyright nor patents On 08/12/10 18:16, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Brian Cameron wrote: >> The GNOME Foot could only be licensed by the copyright holder. I'd >> think any licenses assigned without permission by the copyright holder >> would not be considered valid. So, how can there be images in the >> wild? I'd think the copyright holder should know how it has been >> licensed with permission. > If, for example, the GNOME foot (which is in the wiki) were released to > one person by the original author under by-sa or fdl, and then > redistributed from there, we'd be SOL. > > If, for example, the foot's creator never did such a thing, but someone > else marked the foot file as CC by-sa or fdl, and then that got shipped > around, then the original author could certainly ask for correction. > >> Is it not The GNOME Foundation who owns the copyright to the logo? I >> thought the author of the foot logo image provided the artwork as a >> part of a contest. > No - as far as I know, the foot is copyright jimmac. jimmac can confirm. > > Cheers, > Dave. > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
