On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:49, Vik Olliver wrote: > 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 :)
Ah, so you really need three or four different texts. In plain English and assending order of freedom:- 1) Standard copyright. "I, Vik Olliver, assert all my property rights to the attached work of art created by me. Making a copy of this work in any way whatsoever, or the transmission of it in any way whatsoever, other than by direct ocular viewing or the physical transport of the work on its supporting substrate, without written contractual permission is hereby expressly forbidden. 2) Vik Olliver Commercial Agreement ( VOCA ) "I, Vik Olliver, assert all my property rights to the attached work of art created by me. You will find the work expressed as a data file which is readable electronically. This file is provided for your convenience so that you can incorporate the unaltered images into a work of your own. You may make up to three backup copies of the files, which must be under your control at all times. Gifting, selling, or sub-licencing copies of the unaltered images in the state they were when you received them is expressly forbidden. 3) Vik Olliver Open Picture Publication Licence. ( VOOPPL ) "I, Vik Olliver, assert all my property rights to the attached work of art created by me. You will find the work expressed as a data file which is readable electronically. This file is provided for your convenience so that you can alter it to create a derived work. I expressly give you permission to create a derived work on the condidtion that when you publish our work, you in turn provide, free of cost, a similar data file which incorporates your work to anybody who wants it. The word 'similar' in the previous sentence means that you may change the data format, but not the physical size, the intrinsic resolution, or the loss factor of the compression process, of the pictorial image's electronic representation. You are not permitted to purport that the derived work is entirely your work. A file containing this paragraph must be placed on the machine readable medium carrying the work of art and it shall be called COPYING. 4) Vik Olliver Statement of Discharge to the Public Domain. "I, Vik Olliver, relinquish all my property rights to the attached work of art and publish it into the Public Domain." Note: I am not a lawyer, these texts are provided as samples only. Comment from qualified readers would be appreciated. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
