[ubuntu-in] WHY CC Licensing is not a good idea (Was Looking for a flat-bed scanner in the 6-7k range)

Onkar Shinde onkarshinde at gmail.com
Wed May 28 13:26:37 BST 2008


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:46 PM, AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think you understood me wrong. By distribution, I meant a linux
>> distribution. Linux distributions mainly contain artwork licensed
>> under CC-BY-SA.
>
> I haven't seen any art in Ubuntu except the desktop wallpaper yet. Kindly
> enlighten me! Even if I misunderstood you, my argument is for ALL art -
> images, movies, comics, literature, music, software etc.

Try installing packages like peach-look or tropic-look.
By the way even if bittorrent is a free distribution medium, it
doesn't give you license to distribute the art you don't own i.e.
copyrighted by others.
Anyway I think we are going too much off-thread now, so let's stop here. :-)


Onkar



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