[illumos-Discuss] Pics and Licenses

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Fri Aug 6 14:43:00 PDT 2010


Ok, then you'll have to wait just a bit.

Miguel Vidal <mvidal at opensolaris.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 10:17 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> I'm working on this.  We will license this stuff but the moment the
>> actual ownership details are being worked out.
>> 
>> If you're willing to live a bit in the grey area for now, I can
>> personally assure you that all reasonable and fair use will not be a
>> problem.  In fact, fair use law basically guarantees that normal use
>> like screenshots is automatically legal (as I understand it, although
>> IANAL.)
>> 
>
>Sorry, Garrett, Wikimedia Commons doesn't accept fair use justifications
>(Wikimedia Commons is the common image/media repository used across many
>Wikipedia projects, as Spanish chapter and many others):
>
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Fair_use
>
>So we need any Illumos content (logo, screenshots, images...) is under a
>free/open license (according to "Freedom Defined") to be able to reuse
>it in Wikipedia projects (and in many other community projects):
>
>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
>
>thanks!
>
>--m
>
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>Miguel Vidal
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>  Email: mvidal -at- opensolaris.org
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