[Mageia-artwork] Did anyone check that...

Mon Mar 26 02:15:57 CEST 2012

Hi
+
+I'll mention this on the artwork mailing list first, but I expect I can 
+in the council meeting later as well:
+
+I recently thought of it again, did anyone check that the chosen 
+background, was really made by the person that submitted it? That it 
+wasn't for example found on the Internet and then submitted for 
+inclusion in Mageia? Or even taken from proprietary software that 
+included the image?
+
+Also how was it made? What program did they use to make it? I hope open 
+source tools such as Gimp or Inkscape and not Photoshop for example.
+
+The above doesn't just apply to the default background it apply's to all 
+of the ones that have been chosen for inclusion in Mageia.  Not much 
+good releasing Mageia 2 or a future release, and then finding out that a 
+background or more than one that was included in the distribution, was 
+made by not the person who Mageia people thought it was made by, but 
+someone else, and that actually it breaks copyright for example.
+
+It's also good to know how these backgrounds were made, and ideally they 
+should be made using opensource/freesoftware, or maybe that should be a 
+requirement even. Except for obviously just photos, since the camera 
+makes those, but any editing can be done with open source tools.
+
+We are meant to be a opensource/freesoftware Linux distribution and so 
+are artwork should be made using opensource/freesoftware tools as well 
+really for sure.
+
+I don't think it's a good thing for Mageia to be in the kind of 
+situation Ubuntu is in, where as far as I know a lot of their more 
+recent artwork is made using Mac OS X and I think Photoshop as well. The 
+Ubuntu font was made using Mac OS X for example.
+
+For marketing Mageia to some people, saying that the artwork was made 
+using only opensource/freesoftware tools and being able to prove it, 
+would work out to be quite a good thing.
+
+ From Sebastian sebsebseb
+