On mardi 25 novembre 2008, francesco wrote: > Melchior FRANZ ha scritto: > > There could be no doubt about the legal status of the screenshots > > displayed on our webpage. If there's no explicit license, then they > > are automatically protected by national copyright law in countries > > which signed the Berne Convention. But we *want* that they be used > > in articles and reviews about FlightGear, so we have to give > > explicit permission for that. > > > > I've written down on a wiki page what should IMHO be made clear in > > ..... > > I agree with what is written on that page, especially this part: > Screenshots should only show features that are actually available to the > public, not models that are private and can't be distributed due to a > non-GPL-compatible, restrictive license etc.
Yes if we are not restrictive to the FlightGear CVS distribution only, some models, could be out of CVS and however GPL compatible, and FlightGear compatible. > > But I think that it would be much easier to impose a particular creative > common license from these: > http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses (I think > that by-nd should be reasonable good) Not sure that the common Licenses, must be imposed, any "Artist" could choose his preferred license. > > or even using one of these: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload (You must be logged in > to reach this page). Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
