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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-artwork/attachments/20110617/f6f80b59/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-artwork/attachments/20110617/f6f80b59/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..13801c161 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-artwork/attachments/20110617/f6f80b59/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"> +> 4. general artwork licence<br> +> --------------------------<br> +> Our artwork needs to be licensed. Therefore we decided to have a general<br> +> licence, which is valid for all work, that is not licensed especially. We<br> +> decided to use the Creative Commons 3.0 with attribution, non-commercial and<br> +> share-alike. If there are any concerns over this license, please let us<br> +> know.<br> +<br> +</div>Using Creative Commons licenses is an excellent option. But the<br> +NC/Non-Commercial clause is a no-go. It makes the thing licensed<br> +totally incompatible (in spirit and in detail) with FSF/OSI definition<br> +of free software/open source - thus makes redistribution/derivatives<br> +of the Mageia platform (and that's not what we want for the<br> +distribution).<br> +<br> +CC-By-SA is perfectly acceptable on the other hand (that's what would<br> +be the most like sort of a GPL translated for non-software works - and<br> +we use it for the wiki).<br> +<br></blockquote><div><br>I dunno, something about doing lots of hard work for a good cause because we want to, and then somebody else packaging it for profit? That rankles.<br>I realize that CC-By-SA is more to the spirit of GPL, but it still rankles.<br> +Also, isn't Mageia a not-for-profit foundation? Who would redistribute the artwork for profit? Other devels/artists? That's even worse!<br>The point of allowing commercial software to be GPL'd (as I understand it) is to allow devels to profit from their hard work. But if we "work for" a not-for-profit organization, and we don't want any profit from the work anyway, then there's no point in allowing commercial redistribution!<br> +</div></div></div> |