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Bug 735803 - Review and clear up license for photos and code
Review and clear up license for photos and code
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-backgrounds
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Thomas Wood
Thomas Wood
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-01 10:34 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2014-09-16 10:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 3.14
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
provide license info for the last missing wallpaper (689 bytes, patch)
2014-09-03 14:06 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		none Details | Review
Add CCBY2 for Stones.jpg (1.98 KB, patch)
2014-09-12 08:59 UTC, Jakub Steiner 		committed Details | Review

Description Bastien Nocera 2014-09-01 10:34:50 UTC 
- Most of the backgrounds are CC-BY-SA (see AUTHORS) but the rest of the module is GPL (as per COPYING). Those are not compatible because the "attribution" is an additional restriction on top of the GPL
- Blinds.jpg is copyrighted but doesn't have any explicit license. So it's not under a permissive license and cannot be used.

An adequate fix for this would be to:
- relicense all the data files under a CC-BY-SA version
- remove Blinds.jpg or have it relicensed under a permissive copyright
Comment 1 Thomas Wood 2014-09-01 16:11:09 UTC 
According to bug 646781, the images at that time (which included Blinds.jpg) were GPL, which is also what is currently indicated by the COPYING file. However, it would be good verify this and state it more clearly in the AUTHORS file.
Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2014-09-02 01:42:10 UTC 
Sure, go ahead!
Comment 3 Andrea Cimitan 2014-09-02 13:30:02 UTC 
Fine for me guys!
Comment 4 Jakub Steiner 2014-09-03 14:06:01 UTC 
Created attachment 285254 [details] [review]
provide license info for the last missing wallpaper
Comment 5 Jakub Steiner 2014-09-12 08:59:47 UTC 
Created attachment 286010 [details] [review]
Add CCBY2 for Stones.jpg

Also removed the note about attribution since individual
attribution is more applicable here.
Comment 6 Jakub Steiner 2014-09-16 10:15:37 UTC 
Attachment 286010 [details] pushed as 33848d1 - Add CCBY2 for Stones.jpg