I know... I agree they should have done a better job with the wording, but I think we can get them to be more specific about it. And no, we wouldn't be violating their license in any circumstance so I think they'd be OK with granting CC-0 in these select cases.
P.S. Debian just ditches all our wallpapers and our sddm theme and puts in its own. And thanks for the suggestion - I agree that we should bring in someone that speaks legalese on this, they'll know how to proceed. On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 2:25 PM Adriaan de Groot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 28 January 2019 13:23:36 CET Krešimir Čohar wrote: > > Why not? As far as Unsplash goes, their only restriction is not to start > a > > competing service, which is not even remotely what we are trying to do. > > Surely that is a reasonable and acceptable restriction. It's not unlike > the > > copyleft restrictions ("freedoms") of the GPL. > > Here's the thing: we ship Free Software. More-or-less-equivalently, we > ship > things licensed under an Open Source license. And *that* in turn basically > means "is it OSI listed". > > That's a short-and-bureaucratic kind of answer, which I don't particularly > like. > > A related thing: if we ship something, and *downstream* doesn't like it, > then > either they patch it out, or they don't ship our stuff. It's important to > ask > downstreams specifically what they think, when we're re-shipping something > from > upstream under an unexpected license. Debian is one of the most particular > of > our downstreams, so we'd definitely want to check with them. > > A related thing: FOSDEM is this weekend, when we have the KDE licensing > people, Debian, and a room full of lawyers all in one place (-ish). That's > probably a good moment to inquire. > > [ade] > > PS. The license seems a bit inconsistent to me: first it grants a very > broad > license and then carves out a specific exception (field of endeavour). It > would > be more tidy if it started with "EXCEPT AS LISTED BELOW (field of > endeavour), > Unsplash grants you ..". It may be feasible to get a specific (i.e. CC-0) > license applied by Unsplash to these specific (how many, six?) photos, > since > it's unlikely that you can start a competing service with just six photos.
