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] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > 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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_desktop_backgrounds > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_widescreen_desktop_backgrounds > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_widescreen_desktop_backgrounds> > > CK > > Creative Commons is a modular system - some licenses are free and some not free. Licenses with -NC (non-commercial) are non free. You need to look out for -ND (no derivatives) too. There should be none of those on wikimedia commons, certainly not as featured images.
Unlike en.wikipedia.org, commons.wikimedia.org doesn't accept fair use and other non-free images. Caroline -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
