On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote:
> > You're mixing several unrelated laws here. Personality rights in the > US applies to people who make a living from their celebrity. Privacy > rights in the EU applies to helping protect the little children. > There's some common law concepts in Scotland and elsewhere around > photos of models and celebrities but it's very unlikely to apply to > photos given away under the GPL at no cost and has no bearing on KDE's > licence policy which is based only on the copyright owner. > All I'm saying is that if we choose to distribute a picture of a person without any written consent from that person and if that person changes his/her mind at any time after we've released it, it could go bad as suddenly that person's face is on millions of computers and I guess it would be hard to explain to any legal body how did it end up there when the person is saying he/she does not/did not want to be there. I just think it doesn't seem worthy to get ourselves into potential problems like this. Stay safe. That is all. Cheers -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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