[Mageia-artwork] [RFC] Artwork submission rules in the future

Thu May 31 11:18:37 CEST 2012

Hi there,
+
+We need a simple, clear policy to follow in the future; that's a
+boring part of the work, yes, but not avoidable. Here's a start:
+
+ - a contribution is acceptable for review for inclusion if:
+   - the submitter can be trusted (that's a given at first, but any
+serious doubt in this matter should ring a bell),
+   - the submitter provides a contact (email is a minimum),
+   - a simple, explicit copyright notice, license and history notice
+(if there are source works) is provided,
+   - it is licensed in a way that permits free redistribution and
+modification of it (CC-By-SA, GPL, or more permissive; CC NC or ND
+provisions are not acceptable),
+
+ - a submission without the above notices (copyright, license, history) is void,
+
+ - in case of a conflict because of this submission, the submitter
+must agree to be reachable and provide assistance to solve the case,
+
+ - in case of a doubt on the originality of the submitted work, a
+check-list should be designed and followed (using Web search tools,
+especially image search tools);
+
+ - artwork team manages the submissions and the clearance checks, if
+any. So that the list of final contenders are clear.
+
+By the way, for this also, could someone make a summary (or send a
+pointer) of how the decision for the current background went?
+
+An alternative to make this scalable is to restrict submissions to
+artwork team members/peers, instead of relying on contests.
+
+Thanks
+