On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 02:17:46PM +0000, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: > ------------------------------8<---------------------------- > 3. Elements which are highly likely to be reused by artists in the > creation of new works[3], e.g. bundled brushes[4] or background texture > images, should be licensed as CC-Zero or Public Domain. You'll get > attribution in the official distribution, of course :)
Nice catch. Fully agree about requiring backgrounds to be public domain, now that you mention the problem. (But if the background was simply visible behind a much more substantial artwork, it probably would be no problem no matter where the background came from.) About brushes, yes, .myb files are saved into the ORA but I always thought of the brush preview images or the collection of them as being the much more substantial part. Brush preview images are not saved into the ORA. I think they could be allowed to be of any CC license. MyPaint runs fine without brushes, so I'd say the license doesn't need to be GPL compatible even. But I might be wrong there. I'm a big fan of putting as much as possible into the public domain, but maybe freelance artists are not so happy to see their brush previews as main part of a commercial application, without even attribution...? Problem is, how to communicate this? Licensing is difficult to explain already, let alone applying two licenses to different file types of the same collection. My suggestion would be to ignore the issue of individual brush settings that might be scattered in ORA files. They are not the main content of ORA files anyway. I would only think of a "collection of several brushes, together with consistent preview images" to qualify as a "work" in the copyright sense. If someone takes random brushes out of ORA files, and creates icons for all of them that make them attractive for users, then would say "well done, this is a new independent work on its own". -- Martin Renold _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
