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Thayer Williams

4 May 2008 4 May '08

1:38 p.m.

Excuse the naive question, but while putting together some PKGBUILDs for the Arch artwork stuff, I couldn't find any reference to the Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/licenses. Am I missing something or do we need to add this to our collection? The Arch Linux logo (and other related artwork) is released under CC license so I want to make sure I flag these properly. Cheers, Thayer

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Dan McGee

4 May 4 May

3:17 p.m.

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

Excuse the naive question, but while putting together some PKGBUILDs for the Arch artwork stuff, I couldn't find any reference to the Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/licenses. Am I missing something or do we need to add this to our collection?

The Arch Linux logo (and other related artwork) is released under CC license so I want to make sure I flag these properly.

I don't believe it is. I can add it to the package if we have a need for it though. If you could track me down a plain-text copy of it or point me to a link, that would be great. -Dan

Thayer Williams

4:44 p.m.

On May 04, 2008 12:17 AM PDT, Dan McGee wrote:

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

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Excuse the naive question, but while putting together some PKGBUILDs for the Arch artwork stuff, I couldn't find any reference to the Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/licenses. Am I missing something or do we need to add this to our collection?

The Arch Linux logo (and other related artwork) is released under CC license so I want to make sure I flag these properly.

I don't believe it is. I can add it to the package if we have a need for it though. If you could track me down a plain-text copy of it or point me to a link, that would be great.

-Dan

I'll do that...I did discover that a couple of packages (e.g. tango-icon-theme) do use an individual copy of the CC license. The thing is, there are several versions of this license and each with their own version numbers (2.0, 2.5, etc.) so I can see it being a potential headache. At the same time it's use is becoming mainstream so it might be worthwhile. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Thayer

Jason Chu

5 May 5 May

2:02 a.m.

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

On May 04, 2008 12:17 AM PDT, Dan McGee wrote:

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On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

...
Excuse the naive question, but while putting together some PKGBUILDs for the Arch artwork stuff, I couldn't find any reference to the Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/licenses. Am I missing something or do we need to add this to our collection?

The Arch Linux logo (and other related artwork) is released under CC license so I want to make sure I flag these properly.

I don't believe it is. I can add it to the package if we have a need for it though. If you could track me down a plain-text copy of it or point me to a link, that would be great.

-Dan

I'll do that...I did discover that a couple of packages (e.g. tango-icon-theme) do use an individual copy of the CC license.

The thing is, there are several versions of this license and each with their own version numbers (2.0, 2.5, etc.) so I can see it being a potential headache. At the same time it's use is becoming mainstream so it might be worthwhile.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

I think the different versions are fairly compatible (maybe I'm wrong), but you would have to support all the variations for sure: cc-by, cc-by-nc, cc-by-nd, cc-by-nc-nd, cc-by-sa, cc-by-nc-sa, cc-sampling+, cc-nc-sampling+, etc. I suppose we could just add them as we go. How many have you seen in the wild as of yet? Jason

Thayer Williams

11:01 p.m.

On May 04, 2008 11:02 AM PDT, Jason Chu wrote:

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

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On May 04, 2008 12:17 AM PDT, Dan McGee wrote:

...
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Thayer Williams wrote:

...
Excuse the naive question, but while putting together some PKGBUILDs for the Arch artwork stuff, I couldn't find any reference to the Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/licenses. Am I missing something or do we need to add this to our collection?

The Arch Linux logo (and other related artwork) is released under CC license so I want to make sure I flag these properly.

I don't believe it is. I can add it to the package if we have a need for it though. If you could track me down a plain-text copy of it or point me to a link, that would be great.

-Dan

I'll do that...I did discover that a couple of packages (e.g. tango-icon-theme) do use an individual copy of the CC license.

The thing is, there are several versions of this license and each with their own version numbers (2.0, 2.5, etc.) so I can see it being a potential headache. At the same time it's use is becoming mainstream so it might be worthwhile.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

I think the different versions are fairly compatible (maybe I'm wrong), but you would have to support all the variations for sure: cc-by, cc-by-nc, cc-by-nd, cc-by-nc-nd, cc-by-sa, cc-by-nc-sa, cc-sampling+, cc-nc-sampling+, etc.

I suppose we could just add them as we go. How many have you seen in the wild as of yet?

Jason

With respect to the packages I have installed on my machine, the only CC license appears to be the tango-icon-theme, but I have no idea about other theme-oriented pkgs. As far as in the wild at large, it's one of the most common (if not the most common) licenses for community-released media, artwork, etc. Like you said, maybe we should add it as needed--the Arch stuff is all attribution-noncommercial-sharealike so that's a good place to start.

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