On Jan 20, 2008 11:18 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jan 20, 2008, at 23:00 , William Stein wrote: > > > > > On Jan 20, 2008 10:58 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jan 20, 2008 10:50 PM, Timothy Clemans > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> The message that started this is > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images/ > >>> 2008_January_21#Image:Sagecontourplot.png > >>> > >>> If this person's is right that you can't release a screenshot of the > >>> Sage Notebook under a CC license then I'm worried that the Sage > >>> documentation can't actually be licensed under CC-by-sa since it > >>> includes code from docstrings in the GPLed Sage code. > > > > You can assure the people in that wikipedia conversation that it is > > definitely > > *not* our intention to disallow CC licensing screenshots of sage > > that show > > the documentation, and that I'm sure we'll be happy to work with them > > to clarify the license so that they'll be comfortable with those > > screenshots > > being on Wikipedia. > > Unless I'm reading the wiki comments in the wrong way, they are not > concerned that "we" are disallowing the release of screenshots as CC- > licensed. The question is *can* we release screenshots as CC- > licensed, when the content is GPL-licensed.
Good point. However, we own the copyright to 100% of the relevant GPL-licensed code, so we still get to decide the question of whether or not we allow the screenshots. I think they wikipedia people are just being careful and respectful of our copyright, which I greatly appreciate. -- Wiliam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
