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

[Sam Geeraerts]

r. siddharth wrote:
> Do I have to list the images used in the Documentation in the Artwork 
> List at the RelicensingArtwork[1] wiki. Hitherto, under the assumption 
> that the images used in the Documentation are not "Artistic", I have 
> ignored to list them in the wiki. I'll have track (and thus list) these 
> images in the Documentation, if it is required.

If I remember correctly, I contacted Brett at the time because I was 
unsure about how we put the "real" artwork on the wiki, but also because 
I noticed some non-artwork wiki pages with images that are (or could be 
mistaken for) artwork. Any references I had about that got lost when my 
disk crashed.

> Here is how I conceive the difference :
>
>  --> If the media is used inside a Documentation, then it is necessary 
> functional (in most of the cases).
>
> --> The media is artistic, if it qualifies to be used to "frill" the 
> operating system.

Artwork is often released once, under one license, and then goes on to 
be enthousiastically reused by others in different contexts. Whether 
that use is functional or artistic doesn't change the original license 
(unless it's by the copyright holder and we can assume implicit 
additional licensing). E.g. person A makes a (CC-BY-SA) background for 
gNS and person B writes a (GFDL) tutorial with pictures about how to 
recreate that background.