How do we handle it when an artist gives us explicit permission to use their art, regardless of the licensing? Every time I've approached someone about using/altering a photo with a CC license they are thrilled, and I can credit them in context. Seeing as we can't stamp 'photo by: " on our wallpaper do we need to ask them to agree to a non attribution use? Is this in the wiki and I just not see it?

Angie


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:19:11PM -0430, María Leandro wrote:
> This are the photos I use. I first ask permission to use them
> (positively) but the images already had a good licence [1]
>
> [1] http://www.sxc.hu/help/7_2
>
> http://www.sxc.hu/photo/786380
>
> http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1182234
>
> I have the xcf source... but is a 69Mb file :S

I'm not so sure about that licensing.  Here's what the acutal license
text includes:

"* SELLING AND REDISTRIBUTION OF THE IMAGE (INDIVIDUALLY OR ALONG WITH
OTHER IMAGES) IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN! DO NOT SHARE THE IMAGE WITH
OTHERS!"

This clause makes the images non-usable for Fedora, unless the author
specifically makes them available to us under a truly free license.
There are other clauses in the license for these images that are
problems too, such as requiring the recipient to restrict how they are
used.  Unfortunately "royalty-free" is not automatically free enough.

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