On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 08:39 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 10:24 -0800, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > > Hi > > > > >On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > >> Jonathon, > > >> > > >> Do you think there's a chance we'll convince the release team to > > >> include a few more templates, photos and clipart with OOo? I've been > > >> arguing about that for ages. There are thousands of public domain > > >> photos from Open Clip Art and tons of templates we could be shipping > > >> with OOo. > > > > > >>From memory, the main issue with clipart,photos etc were that > > >Sun could not validate them. So what they wanted was for all > > >submissions (same with the code) to be licensed as Sun being part > > >owners. This idea was absurd when it came to public domain images etc > > >and I believe it was put to the community council to look at > > >alternatives to the license for special cases such as art, templates > > >etc. > > > > Hm. We just finished the latest of several discussions on such matters. > > Far as I recall without looking at the archives, public domain is > > acceptable. Also acceptable for the site. But, you are right, one does > > need to ensure it really is public domain. is that what you mean by > > "validate"? > > Yes. The burningwell site is a place where people can upload their own > photos to contribute to other people under public domain license. Most > of the photos will be from amateur photographers such as myself. :)
Another site that may be of interest to people is at http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ There are actually a range of licenses, but this is probably the closest to what OOo would use. This license area alone has over 50000 photos available. That should be enough for any user :) Regards Jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
