On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 17:22, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 14:25, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Vik Olliver wrote: > > > Is there a version of the GPL for images and artwork? > > > > I release the Hurd iso's under the GPL. However, I don't release the > > Copyleft custom images under this license as I require the CDs to be > > labelled in such a way that they are not confused with the Debian Official > > images; apart from this restriction they can be copied freely. > > Vik is an artist of some considerable skill, therefore I think he means > 'images' in the sense of 'pictures'.
This isn't the heavyweight art, just some rough stuff I've knocked up for diagrams, presentations and so forth. > I have not heard of any open licences for pictures. Me neither :) > What are you wanting to achieve Vic? I've done some graphs and so forth that I want people to be able to use freely, artwork for OpenOffice, that kind of thing. > Do you want people to be allowed and enabled to alter your work? Yes, some of it anyway. > Please correct me if I misunderstand you, but do you want ensure that any > expression of your work, or a derivative thereof, when printed on paper, to > be accompanied by a machine readable file of similar resolution to the > original, thus enabling the receiver of the work to alter it as he feels fit? Just the bits with this licence on it :) Vik :v)
