Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-10 Thread Caroline Ford
Alec Wright wrote: > Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with > the GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? > > On 09/03/07, *Conrad Knauer * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Just to add a note to this thread, I just

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-10 Thread Conrad Knauer
My point was that they would be redistributable. As far as GPL compatibility goes, that would only be a problem if you were making a derivative work, ne? CK On 3/10/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the GPL because

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-10 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arwyn Hainsworth wrote: > On 10/03/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the >> GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? > > The FSF has a list of GPL co

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-10 Thread Arwyn Hainsworth
On 10/03/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the > GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? The FSF has a list of GPL compliant licenses[1]. None of the Creative Commons Licenses seem to be compatibl

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2007-03-10 Thread Greg
>Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the GPL because you have to give credit to the original >authour? On 09/03/07, *Conrad Knauer * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Just to add a note to this thread, I just realized that most (if not

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-10 Thread Alec Wright
Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? On 09/03/07, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just to add a note to this thread, I just realized that most (if not all) of the Wikipedia featured images

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-08 Thread Conrad Knauer
Just to add a note to this thread, I just realized that most (if not all) of the Wikipedia featured images would have acceptable licenses and there are specific categories for those that would make good background images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_pictures http://en

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-07 Thread Alec Wright
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:40 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > I always install gnome-backgrounds. There are actually quite a few > GPL (not sure how that applies to photos, but whatever) packages of > excellent backgrounds. Not many are included in the Ubuntu > repositories though. > > OpenSuSE h

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-07 Thread Alec Wright
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:13 -0500, t u wrote: > I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and > commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... > > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 > Revive ubuntu-calendar > > thanks :)

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-05 Thread Daniel Robitaille
On 3/5/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I've been wandering recently, why doesn't Ubuntu come with more > wallpapers? It currently only comes with three wallpapers, all of which > are made on the computer; whereas Windows XP comes with lots of very > nice wallpapers, including

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-05 Thread Caroline Ford
t u wrote: > I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and > commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... > > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 > Revive ubuntu-calendar > > thanks :) > > I uploaded some featured imag

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-05 Thread t u
I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 Revive ubuntu-calendar thanks :) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-05 Thread Alec Wright
Wow, thanks for the RPM. That's a great find! I love Silence.jpg and Soaring.jpg. I'll upload those pictures to art.ubuntu.com to make them more accessible to other users. Still, it would be nice to see more of these sorts of backgrounds included with Ubuntu, seeing as they're GPL. On Mon, 2007-03

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
I always install gnome-backgrounds. There are actually quite a few GPL (not sure how that applies to photos, but whatever) packages of excellent backgrounds. Not many are included in the Ubuntu repositories though. OpenSuSE has a few I like that can be had from this source rpm (file-roller shoul