On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Matteo Cypriani <m...@lm7.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > Thomas Preud'homme (CC'ed) and myself are currently packaging Salut à Toi, > an > XMPP-based communication system (see ITP #703659), and part of it is media > files, including a French tarot deck. This deck is of a classical design > that > corresponds to the Piatnik deck originally published by Piatnik & Söhne > [P&S]. >
> The upstream author of Salut à Toi, Jérôme Poisson (CC'ed), picked the > files > on Wikimedia Commons, but they have since been deleted for copyright > reasons > [DEL]. Since the arguments were not very clear and Jérôme was convinced the > design was old enough to fall into the public domain, he asked for an > undeletion request [UNDEL] with some new arguments, but it was refused. > Subsequently, the remaining cards of the same design, such as [TN], have > been > marked for deletion on Commons. > > My questions are: > 1. Can we introduce these file in Debian despite the decision made on > Commons? > 2. Do you have any advice for us to be sure that these images are in the > public domain, or that they're not? > Do the copyright check yourself. Do you know of an online resource that shows a Piatnik deck with a rough publishing date, so they can be used for comparison? You might find a close substitute desks in the following collection. CC:ing pysolffc project maintainer and contributor as xe may know the copyright status of the desk you are interested in. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/pysolfc-cardsets/+copyright > Thanks in advance for your help, > > Matteo > > P.S.: Please CC Jérôme, Thomas and me if you answer to this email, as we > are > not subscribed to the list. > > [P&S] Piatnik & Söhne on Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piatnik_&_Söhne > > [DEL] Deletion request on Commons: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Tarotcards.jpg > > [UNDEL] Undeletion request on Commons: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Undeletion_requests/Archive#File:Tarotcards.jpg > This discussion will probably be moved soon, so please try this link if the > above doesn't work: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Undeletion_requests/Archive/2013-03#File:Tarotcards.jpg > > [TN] Examples of files marked for deletion: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarot_Nouveau_-_Diamonds_-_Knight.jpg > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarot_Nouveau_-_Trump_-_21.jpg > -- John Vandenberg
