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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Licensing policy change proposal
From:       Krešimir Čohar <kcohar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2019-01-29 18:56:30
Message-ID: CABnAy3cQea605GLaaGW-vBDt+qQjO03KxiVAthJmcsX6xusH8A () mail ! gmail ! com
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Should we ask Unsplash and/or the photographers if they'd be willing to
release the photographs we selected (seeing as there aren't that many) as
CC0?

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:25 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:

> > The Unsplash license looks like a FOSS license to me.
>
> It is a non-free licence which we can not use. 'This license does not
> include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a
> similar or competing service.'
>
> > The CC0 and other public domain licenses bring in complexity without a
> clear benefit.
>
> CC0 is a declaration not a licence and we really can't stop including
> works in the public domain, as others have said it includes many
> elements of what we ship including other works people have declared as
> public domain, UI elements and APIs and indeed the complete works of
> Shakespeare if we so wished.
>
> Jonathan
>

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<div dir="ltr">Should we ask Unsplash and/or the photographers if they&#39;d be \
willing to release the photographs we selected (seeing as there aren&#39;t that many) \
as CC0?  </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, \
Jan 29, 2019 at 9:25 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">&gt; The Unsplash license looks like a FOSS \
license to me.<br> <br>
It is a non-free licence which we can not use. &#39;This license does not<br>
include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a<br>
similar or competing service.&#39;<br>
<br>
&gt; The CC0 and other public domain licenses bring in complexity without a clear \
benefit.<br> <br>
CC0 is a declaration not a licence and we really can&#39;t stop including<br>
works in the public domain, as others have said it includes many<br>
elements of what we ship including other works people have declared as<br>
public domain, UI elements and APIs and indeed the complete works of<br>
Shakespeare if we so wished.<br>
<br>
Jonathan<br>
</blockquote></div>



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