I would suggest *NOT* making flightgear responsible for managing the licenses on the images in the gallery. I would suggest however that there be a requirement for the uploader to explicitly state the license that they want.
It is a quagmire if you start placing restrictions beyond the standard Creative Commons clauses. Share-alike, deriviatives, commercial use... Each has their advantages and disadvantages, and enhances and diminishes the creator of the works rights. Consequently each person needs to make their own decisions about what they want their images are distributed under. I agree with Gerard's comment that each there should be a default that is implicitly applied if the uploader makes no other assertion. Regards... Matthew On 11/24/08, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > the future: > > - conditions for screenshot submitters, to which they have to agree > - license terms on the screenshot page on flightgear.org, which > explain how the screenshots may be used > > Consider that English isn't my first language, and that IANAL: > http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Submitting_Screenshots > > Please comment and demand changes that you consider important. > If we can come to a result that everyone can live with, then I'd > like to let it be reviewed by the Free Software Foundation Europe. > (Shane Martin Coughlan was so friendly to offer his help. :-) > > m. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Sent from my mobile device ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
