On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org> wrote:
On 2011-12-07 08:24:56 (-0700), andi robert <anditosan1000@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:00 AM, jdd <jdd@dodin.org> wrote: [...]
any ideas welcome - I have no decision power on the subjet for openSUSE (nor want any). result of discussion will be sent to the artwork team and the board :-)
It's the power of a good discussion and convincing :) There is no other power required :)
That is a good summary of the situation. I know that in the past, when
Yes indeed, sorry for cutting it off, those who want to read Jean-Daniel's summary can do so in the OP of the thread. Thanks for collecting those bits.
I have done artwork for companies, I have been asked to sign a release form in which I agree to give up the work I made and give it to the company. That way the company is responsible for copyright of a finalized work and I have agreed for them to do so. It seems to me a very simple and transparent idea. The thing is also that many time we
Sure, that's also how it works for software. Your contract with your employer specifies that the result of your work is owned by them, not you.
But if we want to apply the same idea to openSUSE: 1) it doesn't help regarding which license we should use :\ 2) it's actually the idea of copyright assignment
Now, copyright assignment is a very, very tricky thing. That approach has proven itself to keep contributors away and provide all the benefits to the owner, and none to the contributor. For examples, look at OpenOffice.org or what Canonical is attempting to disguise as a great thing with their "Harmony".
For even further details, and insight, please read this excellent blog post by Michael Meeks: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html
create artwork that does not become official. It is not shipped with the distribution. In that case we could have CC take care of everyone's work.
True, but I'm not sure we can really divide it into two categories. We'll probably use parts of the official artwork for the marketing material, etc... (to have an identity).
We could have a central place, as mentioned here, where our artwork is gathered. Once the artwork moves up and makes it into the distribution, we could sign a release form to openSUSE.
I don't believe that would actually be needed, at least not in an explicit way.
If the license permits reuse and modification (as long as it gives credit to the author(s), of course), we don't need any sort of copyright assignment process.
Would there be artwork that we want to restrict in terms of usage? e.g. "only openSUSE community may use it" ? (I don't believe that is feasible from a license point of view anyway :\)
Let's see whether Marcus can dig something up, that will definitely be useful insight to start with.
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I see, that is good to know jdd. Andy (anditosan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org