Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

[Greg Grossmeier]

<quoting name="Søren Bredlund Caspersen" date="2009-09-20" time="11:22:57 +0200">

> I don't want to be a pain, and if I'm interpreting the CC-BY-SA
> licence wrong, please correct me.

I will/would, don't worry :)

> 
> But I don't think a CC-BY-SA license is optimal for these graphics.
> 
> If I understand the license correctly, every blog, forum post, wiki
> page etc. including these graphics, need to have a line informing who
> made the graphics. I can quickly come up with a hand full, if not
> more, pages that do include these graphics, but not the required
> attribution.

That is correct. And it can be as simple as
<link to author's homepage or work>Name</link> <link to license>CC:BY-SA</link>
Which would look like "Name CC:BY-SA"

(excuse the non-standard link notation)

> 
> I don't want to step on anyone's toes, but if the original author of
> the graphics felt that was the right license, should we not follow it?

We should, as that is the Good Thing (TM) to do.

> If it was really meant to be used in a way where attribution was not
> required, why not choose the right license from the start?

There is no CC license (or FSF license) that does not require attribution 
(ie: they all do). However, I could argue that material like this should 
have all rights waived (using the CC0 waiver[0], or similar). That way 
they can be used/adapted most easily and people wouldn't have to worry 
about adding (possibly ugly) attribution information to an otherwise 
pretty advertisement/marketing material. But I could also argue that 
using the copyleft CC license (BY-SA) or attribution only (BY) is correct 
as those are most analogous to the software licenses used in the 
community.

Best,

Greg


[0] http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

> 
> Cheers
> Søren
> 
> 2009/8/21 Leandro Gómez <leo.telsen at gmail.com>:
> > 2009/8/21 Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com>
> >>
> >> On 08/21/2009 12:10 PM, Leandro Gómez wrote:
> >> >
> >> >     Corrales to weave his magic? ;-)
> >> >
> >> > Yes indeed! Would anyone like to do these? Adolfo, could you ask Byron
> >> >
> >> > Made some badges based on Byron's artwork... threw in a couple of web
> >> > banners as well... download (including sources) here:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.mediafire.com/?gii7ghtym1y
> >>
> >> Those images look awesome! Good you attach them and add them to
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam - thanks!*
> >
> > Done! :)
> >
> >>
> >> *
> >>     Jono
> >>
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