[theme-reviewers] GPL-Compatibility

[Emil Uzelac]

Not a problem Sami!


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Sami Keijonen <sami.keijonen at foxnet.fi>
wrote:

> Thanks Emil for the info.
>
> I hope I'm not the only one who is always confused what it comes to
> licences, images in this case. It's like quantum physics: everybody can
> talk about it but nobody really understands it.
>
>
> On 4 June 2014 21:06, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> 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=user
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emil
>>
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>
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