YaST Contest - The last day to submit your ideas
Hi, Today is the last day you can submit your ideas on how the YaST Mascot should look like and the YaST Mascot name. The judging will begin on October 21, and the winner will be announced on October 27. See http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/YaST_Contest for details and add your ideas to the Gallery section. Bye & Thanks Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.
On Monday 20 October 2008, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
Today is the last day you can submit your ideas on how the YaST Mascot should look like and the YaST Mascot name. The judging will begin on October 21, and the winner will be announced on October 27.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/YaST_Contest for details and add your ideas to the Gallery section.
Just a short question: Does anybody know why there is a requirement for the entries to be licensed under GPL2 rather than GPL-compatible? It is legal to relicense public domain work under GPL2 but it does not look nice. Anyhow public domain work is compatible with GPL and we could ship it. Ciao, Daniel -- J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn@suse.de> SUSE Linux Products GmbH Research & Development Maxfeldstr. 5 GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) D-90409 Nürnberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org
J. Daniel Schmidt wrote:
Just a short question:
Does anybody know why there is a requirement for the entries to be licensed under GPL2 rather than GPL-compatible?
It is legal to relicense public domain work under GPL2 but it does not look nice. Anyhow public domain work is compatible with GPL and we could ship it.
Just a short example: You have downloaded some free library clipart, changed a color, added "Y" and one tooth ==> Eager Beaver. Someone had to create that clipart for you to use it in your own design. The same might happen later with the other ideas. I could now take your green Y-ed, two-teethed Eager Beaver, add a golden string and horns and make a rich Horned Eager Beaver. Honestly, the contest is also about sharing ideas because great ideas often come when people work in teams. Anyway, the reason for GPL is expressed by this rule: * Entries that are derivatives of existing mascots, trademarked and/or copyrighted artwork, will be rejected. (i.e., we cannot accept artwork that will land the openSUSE Project in legal trouble.) By submitting an entry, you attest that the work is your own, and that it does not infringe on rights held by any others to the best of your knowledge. Bye Lukas
On Monday 20 October 2008, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
Does anybody know why there is a requirement for the entries to be licensed under GPL2 rather than GPL-compatible?
Just a short example: You have downloaded some free library clipart, changed a color, added "Y" and one tooth ==> Eager Beaver. Someone had to create that clipart for you to use it in your own design. The same might happen later with the other ideas. I could now take your green Y-ed, two-teethed Eager Beaver, add a golden string and horns and make a rich Horned Eager Beaver.
Whats your point here? Of course you can change it. You can change GPL stuff and public domain stuff. I even offer the SVGs for everybody to change them.
Anyway, the reason for GPL is expressed by this rule: * Entries that are derivatives of existing mascots, trademarked and/or copyrighted artwork, will be rejected. (i.e., we cannot accept artwork that will land the openSUSE Project in legal trouble.) By submitting an entry, you attest that the work is your own, and that it does not infringe on rights held by any others to the best of your knowledge.
The only reason I can find in here, is that "the openSUSE Project should not be lead into legal trouble" (whatever this might mean) and is not related to GPL. Public domain artwork is no risk at all. But hey, nothing to worry about, the Eager Beaver is GPL2 as well :) Ciao, Daniel -- J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn@suse.de> SUSE Linux Products GmbH Research & Development Maxfeldstr. 5 GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) D-90409 Nürnberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org
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On Monday 20 October 2008, Lukas Ocilka wrote:
Anyway, the reason for GPL is expressed by this rule: * Entries that are derivatives of existing mascots, trademarked and/or copyrighted artwork, will be rejected. (i.e., we cannot accept artwork that will land the openSUSE Project in legal trouble.) By submitting an entry, you attest that the work is your own, and that it does not infringe on rights held by any others to the best of your knowledge.
The only reason I can find in here, is that "the openSUSE Project should not be lead into legal trouble" (whatever this might mean) and is not related to GPL. Public domain artwork is no risk at all.
There's no legal risk if the graphics submitted is licensed under the GPLv2. We'd like to use the ideas in every possible way: logos, plush toys, icons, adverts, movies, ... just whatever. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain - --- cut --- The public domain is most often discussed in contrast to works whose use is restricted by copyright. Under modern law, most original works of art, literature, music, etc. are covered by copyright from the time of their creation for a limited period of time (which varies by country). When the copyright expires, the work enters the public domain. - --- cut --- Artwork is actually often copyrighted. Releasing it (by default) under the GPLv2 license makes it 'kind of' the public domain. Bye L. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj86BAACgkQVSqMdRCqTiz6YACeNNNTQFn7MAO6VtOblZA5vn3J gT0AoJlOi1A5nkMACaYGAeIpoIcEEJV0 =QW0e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 20 October 2008 10:11:02 Lukas Ocilka wrote:
Today is the last day you can submit your ideas on how the YaST Mascot should look like and the YaST Mascot name. The judging will begin on October 21, and the winner will be announced on October 27.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/YaST_Contest for details and add your ideas to the Gallery section.
We extended the deadline to November 09, 12:00 UTC. See http://news.opensuse.org/2008/10/21/yast-mascot-contest/ and http://en.opensuse.org/Marketing_Team/YaST_Contest -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) martin.lasarsch@suse.de - http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ux+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ux+help@opensuse.org
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J. Daniel Schmidt -
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Martin Lasarsch