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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Licensing policy change proposal
From:       Krešimir Čohar <kcohar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2019-01-28 12:23:36
Message-ID: CABnAy3cnLcxcOi3Ufkk_s-aEZvYVbJvbKBAqXpuLm6Fs20nsyw () mail ! gmail ! com
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I don't think there are any problems with using public domain images, and
even if there were I'd rather view them as challenges to overcome than
obstacles to avoid.

> These are both non-free licences and we can not ship files which can
only be copied with their restrictions.

Why not? As far as Unsplash goes, their only restriction is not to start a
competing service, which is not even remotely what we are trying to do.
Surely that is a reasonable and acceptable restriction. It's not unlike the
copyleft restrictions ("freedoms") of the GPL.

I don't know about the Pexels license though. It purports to be free, but
the wording is very vague and it's hard to gauge how equivalent it is to
CC0. But I think that just means it bears a closer look, not that it should
be rejected outright.

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:24 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 18:04, Kre=C5=A1imir =C4=8Cohar <kcohar@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
> > The licenses are:
> > - the Pexels license: https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/
> > - the Unsplash license: https://unsplash.com/license,
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsplash#License
>
> These are both non-free licences and we can not ship files which can
> only be copied with their restrictions.
>
> > - the Creative Commons Zero License:
> https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html
>
> We can of course ship files which are in the public domain as they are
> unrestricted, it doesn't need a change to our licence policy.
>
> Jonathan
>

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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I don&#39;t think there are any problems with using \
public domain images, and even if there were I&#39;d rather view them as challenges \
to overcome than obstacles to avoid.<div><br></div><div>&gt; These are both non-free \
licences and we can not ship files which can<br>only be copied with their \
restrictions.<br style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"></div><div><br></div><div>Why not? As far \
as Unsplash goes, their only restriction is not to start a competing service, which \
is not even remotely what we are trying to do. Surely that is a reasonable and \
acceptable restriction. It&#39;s not unlike the copyleft restrictions \
(&quot;freedoms&quot;) of the GPL.</div><div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t know about \
the Pexels license though. It purports to be free, but the wording is very vague and \
it&#39;s hard to gauge how equivalent it is to CC0. But I think that just means it \
bears a closer look, not that it should be rejected outright.</div></div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:24 \
AM Jonathan Riddell &lt;<a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org">jr@jriddell.org</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at \
18:04, Krešimir Čohar &lt;<a href="mailto:kcohar@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">kcohar@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br> &gt; The licenses are:<br>
&gt; - the Pexels license: <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/" \
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/</a><br> &gt; - \
the Unsplash license: <a href="https://unsplash.com/license" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">https://unsplash.com/license</a>, <a \
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsplash#License" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsplash#License</a><br> <br>
These are both non-free licences and we can not ship files which can<br>
only be copied with their restrictions.<br>
<br>
&gt; - the Creative Commons Zero License: <a \
href="https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html</a><br> <br>
We can of course ship files which are in the public domain as they are<br>
unrestricted, it doesn&#39;t need a change to our licence policy.<br>
<br>
Jonathan<br>
</blockquote></div></div>



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