Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

[Leandro Gómez]

2009/9/21, Søren Bredlund Caspersen <soeren.b.c at gmail.com>:
> 2009/9/21 Leandro Gómez <leo.telsen at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/9/20 Søren Bredlund Caspersen <soeren.b.c at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > The attribution information is included in the source files.
>>>
>>> Upon closer inspection, I see that now.
>>> However, to make the use of these buttons more easy, maybe it should
>>> be more explicit at the wiki page - but that is a minor issue.
>>
>> Yes, you're right...my mistake :)
>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > If you have limited space, please don't use this graphics. It's as
>>> > simple as
>>> > that... ok... I'm the original author of the artwork, but if I weren't
>>> > I
>>> > would always think the same way:
>>>
>>> Don't get me wrong here. I brought up the issue because the licensed
>>> work is being miss used. I don't want to throw any specific links out
>>> there, but go surfing planet ubuntu, and you will find people using
>>> these graphics, but not attributing you as the original author. That
>>> to me is a clear violation of the license, and I wanted to shine some
>>> light on the issue - and possibly figure out if I had misunderstood
>>> the license at some point.
>>
>> I understand the license this way:
>>
>> If you're using the graphics for promoting the event, it's ok to not
>> attribute the author. It's the UGJ we're promoting and there's no need to
>> link to the authors site.
>>
>> But, if you're distributing the artwork or making derivated use of it,
>> then
>> you must attribute.
>
> Can someone please confirm this? If you use these graphics to promote
> the event, you don't have to live up to the license requirement of
> attribution? Can there be made this kind of exceptions from the CC
> license?