[theme-reviewers] GPL-Compatibility

[Thomas Usborne]

How about http://pixabay.com/?

All images seem to have this license:
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Tom 

-----Original Message-----
From: theme-reviewers [mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org]
On Behalf Of Afzaal
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 11:29 AM
To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] GPL-Compatibility

Timing is great! Just uploaded a new theme earlier today which contains an
image from unsplash, so I'll go ahead and change that asap.

Is there a central place here where GPL image providers are listed? If I
remember correctly, there was a push a few months back to find places where
we could get GPL images.

Thanks as always!

Afzaal


Quoting Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me>:

> Hey guys,
>
> I was thinking to write a post about it, but I chose the list instead.
>
> As I was going over some license *issues* with my very own work, it 
> turns out that sites like http://unsplash.com/ are completely 
> unreliable and probably not the best choice to use images from.
>
> The site itself does not have an explicit license, other than a line 
> where it says "All photos CC0", which is definitely not enough.
>
> Should we "police" this? You bet!
>
> All right, so I took few extra steps and came to conclusion that the 
> original license and the license http://unsplash.com/ advertise are 
> different.
>
> In most cases the license are either not CC0, or they require a 
> special permission by the owner and in some other cases released under 
> CC and we all know that CC alone is not GPL-Compatible. Not to mention 
> that sites lists images from people that don't even exist.
>
> When that special permission is granted the source needs to have that 
> in writing, otherwise "All photos CC0" means nothing to us.
>
> Best example:
>
> http://500px.com/photo/69737425/hoi-an-vietnam-by-rafael-chiti?from=us
> er
>
>
> Thanks,
> Emil



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