[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #30156: Twenty Fifteen Screenshot Image License Issue

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#30156: Twenty Fifteen Screenshot Image License Issue
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 Reporter:  sakinshrestha  |       Owner:  iandstewart
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  4.1
Component:  Bundled Theme  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch      |     Focuses:
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Comment (by nacin):

 Something does not require attribution for it to be compatible with the
 GPL. If something is Public Domain or Creative Commons Zero, there is no
 required attribution. It remains compatible with the GPL. In this case,
 it's just a matter of whether it is compatible with the theme review
 process, not the GPL.

 I don't really care what needs to happen on the theme review side to ease
 things for the overall review process, but in this case, I'm still for
 reverting [30235]. Default themes do not need this cruft.

 And generally speaking, the theme review process shouldn't require that
 this actually appears in the readme. Leaving a comment on the theme review
 Trac ticket should be sufficient for verification purposes, assuming
 attribution is not required.

 That image would not be on unsplash.com if it were not Creative Commons
 Zero. It seems to me like that image was granted CC0  by Rafael Fabricio
 so it could appear on unsplash.com. You can also get it from his page on
 500px under a different license. I presume Unsplash is a good marketing
 opportunity, as then you could also get other images from 500px as well.

 As Rarst wrote in https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2014/06/05/gpl-
 compatible-images/:
 > Note that copyright holder (original author) can release the work under
 different licenses. There is nothing preventing author from submitting
 photo to unsplash under CC0 and having it hosted under different license
 elsewhere.

 This is 100% correct. And, the co-founder of Unsplash verified all of this
 and more.

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