2008/1/9, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > His statement that he holds the copyright most likely protects us from > charges of willful infringement under US law. That's about as much > protection as you get from any upstream; it's still copyright infringement > if an upstream is wrong about the license terms of a work, or if they lie to > us, but we don't generally demand extraordinary proof of ownership from our > upstreams. > > In this case, it may be worth asking for further clarification since > upstream's statement is so vague on the matter of the model itself. I.e., > did the author buy the copyright to the model, did the model creator > disclaim all copyright on the model, or did the model creator merely provide > a license to the model (in which case we probably need to see that license > to be sure)? > > I think it's a given that the image is going to be a derived work of the > model under copyright law, otherwise why would the 3d model have been > relevant enough to even mention? So the copyright status of the model > itself is relevant to the distributability and freeness of the image.
This was the conversation I had with upstream about that some time ago: 2007/8/15, Bram Stolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 8/15/07, Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > 2007/8/15, Bram Stolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Miry, > > > > > > All the artwork is done by me. > > > All the models were created by me. > > > All the sounds were recorded by me. > > > > Great : > > > > > The engine in the opening screen was modeled by someone else. > > > I bought a license to use this model to create animations/renderings. > > > It came from one of those online model-shops. > > > The engine model is not part of the distrib, so that is ok. > > > I am not redistributing the model, but a rendered image of that model. > > > > So I guess it depends on what license you got to create the rendering. > > What's the license under which the rendered image shall be distributed? Of > > course it cannot be GPL, as you cannot make the whole toolchain to generate > > the image from the source available. Maybe MIT or BSD license would do? Does > > the original license of the model allow you to redistribute a rendered image > > of it under a free license? > > It does. > > If the image can't be under GPL, just pick any license you want. > Maybe even declare the image to be in the public domain. > Would that work? > What about the other images in that directory? > I think I created them with GIMP or something. > It is a similar situation: I do not own the fonts to create the text, > but I do own the rendering of it (the text). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
