Re: Copyrights in the wiki
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 18:22 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:54:56AM +, Ole Tange wrote: On 2/17/07, denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a question. Is it allowed to post screenshots from MacOS applications and use them as a reference for the layout and look of the phone? For example here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Date_%26_Time_Preview I would recommend against it. The wiki clearly states: I would follow that recommendation, but don't consider it as a serious issue. The MacOS apps are certainly copyrighted, but I've never seen any issue about publicizing screenshots from existing programs. I mean, if that would be considered copyright infringement, nobody could ever publicize any screenshot of any non-free application or a non-free OS anywhere. Yes, if somebody copies the design/theming of a UI app (into a new UI app, e.g. an OpenMoko one), that would be a problem. But then the moko themes are so different that I doubt this would happen either. Right, if anyone is concerned, just give adequate attribution around the image and give apple due credit...otherwise, this is all fair use...and free promotion for apple... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Copyrights in the wiki
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:54:56AM +, Ole Tange wrote: On 2/17/07, denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a question. Is it allowed to post screenshots from MacOS applications and use them as a reference for the layout and look of the phone? For example here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Date_%26_Time_Preview I would recommend against it. The wiki clearly states: I would follow that recommendation, but don't consider it as a serious issue. The MacOS apps are certainly copyrighted, but I've never seen any issue about publicizing screenshots from existing programs. I mean, if that would be considered copyright infringement, nobody could ever publicize any screenshot of any non-free application or a non-free OS anywhere. Yes, if somebody copies the design/theming of a UI app (into a new UI app, e.g. an OpenMoko one), that would be a problem. But then the moko themes are so different that I doubt this would happen either. -- - Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://openmoko.org/ Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Copyrights in the wiki
I got a question. Is it allowed to post screenshots from MacOS applications and use them as a reference for the layout and look of the phone? For example here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Date_%26_Time_Preview Regards, Denis ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Copyrights in the wiki
On 2/17/07, denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a question. Is it allowed to post screenshots from MacOS applications and use them as a reference for the layout and look of the phone? For example here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Date_%26_Time_Preview I would recommend against it. The wiki clearly states: Please note that all contributions to OpenMoko are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 (see Project:Copyrights for details). If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION! Had it been in Wikipedia I would have expected a FairUse banner on these images. If you can make your own mockup using free software I would say: Go for it. /Ole ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
