Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

[Niels Kjøller Hansen]

man, 21 09 2009 kl. 22:57 +0200, skrev 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>

<SNIP>

> >> 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?
> 
> >From the CC website:
> 
> "If the work itself contains any copyright notices placed there by the
> copyright holder, you must leave those notices in tact, or reproduce
> them in a way that is reasonable to the medium in which you are
> re-publishing the work."
> 
> The work itself (the .png graphic) doesn't contain any copyright
> notice, so IMHO you're not violating the license.
> 
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FFAQ#How_do_I_properly_attribute_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work.3F
> 

As I read it, the five bulletpoints on the linked FAQ-entry has an
implied AND in it. So just because the work doesn't contain a copyright
notice, it doesn't forego any attribution.

According to the CC-BY-SA license, every redistribution (even displaying
the button on your webpage) must be accompanied by the authors name and
a link to the license.

However, the author IS allowed to grant every exception he or she likes.
So if the author thinks that "If you're using the graphics for promoting
the event, it's ok to not attribute the author.", then this is a
legitimate exception.

But my point is that this is NOT implicit in the license and HAS to be
stated by the author in order to be applicable. So instead of each user
of the work should have to dig through this mailing list, stating this
exception on the wiki-page would be benificial.

The CC-BY-SA is rather strict (by design, and this is a Good Thing(tm),
IMO) license, but the author retains all rights and can give exceptions
as he or she pleases, making it a very flexible way of distributing
material.

regards,
Niels Kjøller Hansen