Hi all.
In the general meeting of yesterday evening we proposed to have a discussion about licencing.
Some hints:
* There are many licences in the wild : http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Accepted_licences
* as long as "art" is involved (at least I know this for photography), there is an inalienable right for the author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary...)
That said the problems of licencing of artwork are numerous. I could lead a similar discussion for documents for the LDP that had as result this licence page http://wiki.tldp.org/LdpWikiDefaultLicence
The problems:
* artwork is often difficult to label - how can we know who is the author? (exifs for photographs, but for drawings or logos or posters or flyers?)
* there are often many authors for the same work
* we do not have enough artists in openSUSE. As we don't have money to pay for some, we have to reward them. The minimum reward is to credit them of the work.
Some solutions:
* have a document in the distro/wiki... with the artwork authors name like in news papers
* copy this document in the release notes
What kind of licence
Given we have many artworks in the distro/project, having various licences may lead to great difficulties.
A very common licence is cc-by-sa.
What about CC0: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode it's fully compatible with GPL (even the permissive fallback license). Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org