Re: [gNewSense-art] Re-Licensing Artwork.

[r. siddharth]

al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:


> - Options (a) 'relicensing the artwork to GFDL' and (b) 'ask all contributors
>    to provide extra permission for wiki pages and artwork to be combined', both
>    require asking contributors to explicity release extra permission...
>
>    So, why ask for (a), which moreover lead to a inappropriate license for
>    artwork used with the operating system? Better ask for (b)!

Thanks for your valuable comments alexus. Perhaps I was too hasty to 
suggest that the documentation + the artwork be licensed under the GFDL. 
I think we should put this licensing issue up for discussion before we 
move forward. Kgoetz ? Samgee ? Sirgazil ? what do you think.


> For all these reasons I suggest:
>
> - to *keep* the CC BY-SA license for all the artwork related with the operating
>    system (logos, wallpapers, themes, icons, buttons etc.)
>
> - to license GNS's web pages under GFDL for texts and CC BY-SA for artwork
>    (images, videos etc.) inserted into the pages themselves (requesting extra
>    permissions just for these artworks, and updating the footer to
>    automatically obtain the permission to combine GFDL and CC BY-SA for any new
>    contribution in the future)

alexus, in this case, if we were to go for the option (b) that you have 
suggested, can you help us write the relevant "clause" for the "extra 
permissions" that is required to make things compatible.

Thank you!

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