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

[r. siddharth]

> > 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.

Sam Geeraerts wrote:

> 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.

So, should I list the images that are part of Documentation separately 
from those that purely qualify as "artwork" or just leave them alone and 
not list them in the RelicensingArtwork wiki ?

> > 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.

Legal issues are always subtle and hard to clearly understand, the more 
I try to simplify, more complex it becomes, quite paradoxical.

I thank you.
--
rsiddharth
http://rsiddharth.ninth.su/