[theme-reviewers] GPL-Compatibility

[Emil Uzelac]

Pixabay is better but they also have some weird stuff too.

What I would suggest is to trace the images back to the author and get your
license directly.

Good place for images is http://wefunction.com/category/free-photos/


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Thomas Usborne <hello at edge22.com> wrote:

> 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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