Excellent, thank you :D On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:23 PM Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well others have queried and objected so I guess it's not final. But > if someone declares their work to be in the pubic domain then a) that > satisfies our needs and the needs of all our distributors and b) no > court in the world is going to uphold a complaint for any use when it > has been explicitly said it's unrestricted. > > Jonathan > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 19:43, Krešimir Čohar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the vote of confidence haha > > So to sum up though, is CC0 acceptable? > > if we confirm that the images we're going to use are CC0 can we use them? > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 8:22 PM Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> You can but try :) > >> > >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 18:56, Krešimir Čohar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > Should we ask Unsplash and/or the photographers if they'd be willing > to release the photographs we selected (seeing as there aren't that many) > as CC0? > >> > > >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:25 AM Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > The Unsplash license looks like a FOSS license to me. > >> >> > >> >> It is a non-free licence which we can not use. 'This license does not > >> >> include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a > >> >> similar or competing service.' > >> >> > >> >> > The CC0 and other public domain licenses bring in complexity > without a clear benefit. > >> >> > >> >> CC0 is a declaration not a licence and we really can't stop including > >> >> works in the public domain, as others have said it includes many > >> >> elements of what we ship including other works people have declared > as > >> >> public domain, UI elements and APIs and indeed the complete works of > >> >> Shakespeare if we so wished. > >> >> > >> >> Jonathan >
