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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Use of Air wallpaper by Sony
From:       Cyrille Berger Skott <cberger () cberger ! net>
Date:       2010-11-09 12:23:57
Message-ID: 201011091323.57481.cberger () cberger ! net
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On Tuesday 09 November 2010, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > [: Adriaan de Groot :]
> > I recently argued (elsewhere) that the GPLs in the context of artwork are
> > basically CC-BY. [...]
> 
> If that was a public argument, could you point to it?
> 
> I would imagine that GPL in the context of artwork is essentially CC-BY-SA
> on the output (final) image *plus* CC-BY-SA on its layered or vector
> source. Especially so for GPL 3, with its "preferred form [...] for making
> modifications" formulation. And then I've seen that -SA in the first part
> makes many artists' skin crawl, and the second part makes them perplexed,
> as in "are you insane"? :)

What I thought too :) I was also wondering if it was requiring the VAIO logo 
to be (L)GPL as well. Unless the logo is in a different file and just combined 
for display ?

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Cyrille Berger Skott

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-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">What I thought too :) I was \
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-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Cyrille Berger \
Skott</p></body></html>



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