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

[al3xu5 / dotcommon]

Il giorno lunedì 28/05/2012 19:58:51 CEST
"r. siddharth" <address@hidden> ha scritto:

> I am not really sure whether I understood the situation fully enough, 
> therefore I'll express what I have perceived, please correct me if I got 
> it wrong  :
> 
> --> All text in the gNS web-site would be licensed under the GFDL ( with 
> no in-variant sections).
> 
> --> The Artwork (wallpapers, audio, video, logos) will be available 
> under GFDL and CC BY-SA (i.e it is going to be dual-licensed). As a 
> consequence the contributors of the Artwork, that is already present in 
> the gNS web-site, have to intimated about the Artwork being 
> "dual-licensed" and thus ask for their approval to make it available 
> under both GFDL & CC BY-SA.

Well... nobody corrects anyone ;-) 
Just let me try to summarize what emerged from the discussion so far.

We have two possible options with respect to how to handle artwork (images,
videos etc.) instrted in the GNS's web pages:

OPT.1) 
Similar to Wikipedia, we can consider artwork in the GNS's wiki to be
aggregated with the text: then there would be no problem keeping text under FDL
and artwork under CC BY-SA. 
But it is not so easy to assess if an image is or not aggregated with text, and
every case is different from other: then there would be problems in the future
or in some specific situations.

OPT.2) 
We can decide to "migrate" the whole (both text and artwork) GNS's wiki to
FDL only. 
This leads to: 
- first, ask contributors (copyright holders) of the artwork (mostly images)
  that is already inserted on the GNS's wiki to dual licensing their works
  under both FDL and CC BY-SA
- then, provide that from now on all the new artwork on the GNS's wiki is
  required to be licensed under the FDL (changing in an appropriate way the
  license statement in the footer) 
This way needs some activities to be performed now, but should avoid problems in
the future.

(I hope that this overview is complete and accurate.)


Personally, I think OPT.2 is better.

Regards
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