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That it wasn't for example +</I>><i> found on the Internet and then submitted for inclusion in Mageia? Or even +</I>><i> taken from proprietary software that included the image? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Also how was it made? What program did they use to make it? I hope open +</I>><i> source tools such as Gimp or Inkscape and not Photoshop for example. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The above doesn't just apply to the default background it apply's to all of +</I>><i> the ones that have been chosen for inclusion in Mageia.  Not much good +</I>><i> releasing Mageia 2 or a future release, and then finding out that a +</I>><i> background or more than one that was included in the distribution, was made +</I>><i> by not the person who Mageia people thought it was made by, but someone +</I>><i> else, and that actually it breaks copyright for example. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's also good to know how these backgrounds were made, and ideally they +</I>><i> should be made using opensource/freesoftware, or maybe that should be a +</I>><i> requirement even. Except for obviously just photos, since the camera makes +</I>><i> those, but any editing can be done with open source tools. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We are meant to be a opensource/freesoftware Linux distribution and so are +</I>><i> artwork should be made using opensource/freesoftware tools as well really +</I>><i> for sure. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't think it's a good thing for Mageia to be in the kind of situation +</I>><i> Ubuntu is in, where as far as I know a lot of their more recent artwork is +</I>><i> made using Mac OS X and I think Photoshop as well. The Ubuntu font was made +</I>><i> using Mac OS X for example. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For marketing Mageia to some people, saying that the artwork was made using +</I>><i> only opensource/freesoftware tools and being able to prove it, would work +</I>><i> out to be quite a good thing. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> From Sebastian sebsebseb +</I>><i> _______________________________________________ +</I>><i> Mageia-artwork mailing list +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork">Mageia-artwork at mageia.org</A> +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork">https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork</A> +</I> +I know that a fair bit of 1's artwork was done in PS but i don't know +about the other stuff. + +I think that plymouth is clean in both senses of the word, if the logo +and background are fine then so is ksplash. The screensavers are +mostly from me, and I have/had permission for cc-by-sa for the ones +that weren't. + +I think that bootsplash is the same, as it is the background and some +home made graphics. +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001190.html">[Mageia-artwork] Did anyone check that... +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001184.html">[Mageia-artwork] Artwork team leader and deputy leader election +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1179">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1179">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1179">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1179">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-artwork">More information about the Mageia-artwork +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |