Copyright law is broken. =( -Thiago
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > Not sure where you got that idea, but in every western legal system I know > of the opposite is true. If no license is given, then there is none. > Copyright is automatically granted (and applying a license doesn't alter > copyright in general), and by default all rights are retained by the author. > I very much doubt the author of this particular image would ever exercise > their rights to sue, but it is worth mentioning since many people use stuff > from Google images or whatnot in games. > > --Noah > > On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Shadd wrote: > >> When an item is distributed freely without any mention to licenses, it is >> considered of public domain, so you can use it as you please. That is, if >> really there is no copyright on it. >>> >>> Where can i find the author & exact license of the pygame snake >>> graphic ? It's the logo on top of the www.pygame.org website and can be >>> downloaded at http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml but i see no license >>> information. I want to put the snake graphic as sprite in some python / >>> pygame tutorials. >>> >>> greetings, >>> -Horst > >
