[ubuntu-studio-devel] image licences

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

When something is actually released into the public domain it is not under
the GPL, CC or any other license and everyone is in fact free to use it for
anything and in any way. From what I've heard the reason Linux et all are
NOT simply released into the public domain is to prevent an "embrace,
extend, and extingush" scenario.

On 6/23/2016 at 6:12 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:06:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 11:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:16:38 +0000, Jóhann Örn Geirdal wrote:  
>>> > the images are all in public domain  
>>> that's good :). Possibly there is the need to add the
>>> copyright/copyleft holders to a license file for packages or a 
>footer
>>> to the website. This might depend to the kind of license/public
>>> domain.  
>>
>>"Public domain" perhaps doesn't mean that it is always allowed to 
>edit
>>pics for public usage.
>
>Personally I'm not nit-picking, but the Ubuntu policy at least is
>regarding GPLed software. The Ubuntu package search still doesn't 
>show
>linuxsampler, it's license is "GPL _custom_".
>
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