GNU bug report logs - #54794
Clarify licence of guix.gnu.org screenshots

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Clarify licence of guix.gnu.org screenshots
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:01:55 +0200

Guix,

Devin Ulibarri from the FSF rightfully pointed out that the licence of, 
e.g., <https://guix.gnu.org/en/screenshots/virtual-machine/> is not 
obvious.  It should be made so on the Web page itself.

From memory I'd say these are ‘public domain’, and [0] concurs, but I 
doubt [0] was explicitly intended to cover these images not contributed 
by Luis Felipe.

My Web mail can't find it, but there's an ongoing thread about 
relicencing the blog posts to CC-(BY?)-SA-whatever 4.0.  If it applies 
well to images (and I think it does), that or CC0 seem like the two 
obvious choices.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent from a Web browser.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

[0]: 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/README#n101 
— last section.

Message #8 received at 54794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 54794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54794: Clarify licence of guix.gnu.org screenshots
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:15:05 +0200

On 2022-04-08 18:01, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix 
wrote:
> or CC0

…was probably a stupid suggestion, as some of these images embed at 
least the CC-BY-SA 4.0 GNU Guix logo.

(One wonders: are screenshots of incompatibly-licenced software 
artworks… illegal?)

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent from a Web browser.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Message #11 received at 54794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 54794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54794: Clarify licence of guix.gnu.org screenshots
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 21:24:59 +0200

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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix schreef op vr 08-04-
2022 om 18:15 [+0200]:
> On 2022-04-08 18:01, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix 
> wrote:
> > or CC0
> 
> …was probably a stupid suggestion, as some of these images embed at 
> least the CC-BY-SA 4.0 GNU Guix logo.
> 
> (One wonders: are screenshots of incompatibly-licenced software 
> artworks… illegal?)
> 

Wikimedia people have thought about things like this:
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Screenshots>.

AFAICT they haven't looked into what happens if its a screenshot of
multiple sofware things with incompatible licenses (e.g. some GPL-2-
only and some GPL-3-only software) though ...

Greetings,
Maxime.

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