On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> wrote: ... > On Di, 2016-05-17 at 17:53 +0100, Allan Day wrote: >> Often photos won't be published online under a free licence, but will >> be provided to us directly. > Like how?
The most common cases are when the photos are published online but without a licence. This might be because the platform doesn't support free licensing (eg. G+, Facebook), or simply because the photo author doesn't usually use free licensing. Typically I find the photos and approach the author, and generally they're happy to let us use them under a licence. In this situation it seems a bit much to ask them to publish them somewhere with the correct licensing. I have had other cases where photos have been provided to me directly. Say at GUADEC I might ask someone to email me the group photo to post on gnome.org. People have also given me photos at events physically with an SD card, or through some kind of file transfer. > An in-line mechanism might be much easier to implement and maintain as > opposed to something out-of-band like posting to a mailing-list. > > If its email, then you could make the sender include a statement. ... That's true - I've done a bit of research and it seems that it doesn't have to be a public statement, as long as we have a record of the photo creator giving consent. This means that the consent could be a private email that we save alongside the image. > If it's bound to some authentication mechanism, you may be able to make > the sender accept that the photos may be used by the GNOME Foundation. What sort of mechanism would that be? Allan _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
