Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [dreimer] 63785: [CARDS] Replace the old ugly 16 color cards with better looking ones. (From: http://www.united3dartists.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=954) Remove 10 of 12 backgrounds and add some...

[Colin Finck]

Daniel, do you have a written permission to put these third-party files
under LGPL? Which is essentially what you're doing when adding the files
to our cards.dll.
Same goes for the Bavarian cards and decks. I doubt they have been put
in the public domain..

We already needed to "fix" cards.dll once for not using GPLed cards,
let's not repeat this again.


- Colin

The Bavarian cards are my own ones. Scanned from my own decks I have here. The cards image
is not under any specific copyright because it existed that way far before we even had
patents. Moreover I made 20 cards myself which not even exist in Germany. Cards Nr 2-5
normally don’t exist at all in all 4 colors. Same goes for the card backgrounds I used in
Bavarian AND French card style, all lying around here, some of historical Background. The
deviantart ones are under CCL. So, yes, you may be right, I might have misinterpreted free
to use in new French front matters that way I can use em in a LGPL library, too. They are
still free to use, aren’t they? Sorry if I might be wrong here. If so, I can try to
contact that guy of course.




Daniel 






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Daniel, do you have a written permission to put these third-party files
under LGPL? Which is essentially what you're doing when adding the files
to our cards.dll.
Same goes for the Bavarian cards and decks. I doubt they have been put
in the public domain..

We already needed to "fix" cards.dll once for not using GPLed cards,
let's not repeat this again.


- Colin

[Colin Finck]

Daniel Reimer wrote:
>   The Bavarian cards are my own ones. Scanned from my
> own decks I have
>  here. The cards image is not under any specific copyright because it
>  existed that way far before we even had patents. Moreover I made 20
>  cards myself which not even exist in Germany. Cards Nr 2-5
>  normally don’t exist at all in all 4 colors. 
I see. I've read up a bit on this topic, see [1] and [2] for answers
from German lawyers. Given the information you've added, I don't think
we'll get into problems with these cards as long as the images are just
similar but not identical to the cards of an existing publisher.


>   he deviantart ones are under CCL. 
There are several Creative Commons licenses, some require crediting the
author at prominent places. Please check this and add all license
information for all used images to a small textfile in the image folder.
Afterwards, we can see if more crediting is required.


>   So, yes, you may be right, I might have misinterpreted
> free to use in
>  new French front matters that way I can use em in a LGPL library, too.
>  They are still free to use, aren’t they? Sorry if I might be wrong here.
>  If so, I can try to contact that guy of course. 
Free to use usually only applies to private use. By putting them in SVN
and future ReactOS releases, we're actually redistributing them.
Please contact the author and put his answer into the textfile as well.


Cheers,

Colin

[1] http://www.frag-einen-anwalt.de/---f148655.html
[2] http://www.frag-einen-anwalt.de/---f17715.html

So… then the backgrounds might be a problem. At least the ones I scanned. You barely can
see what the Original was like in those small sizes, but… maybe you can. OKOK, we want to
be 100% secure there. Will replace them asap. And I will add a license txt. I already
contacted the Cards author btw.






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Daniel Reimer wrote:
>   The Bavarian cards are my own ones. Scanned from my
> own decks I have
>  here. The cards image is not under any specific copyright because it
>  existed that way far before we even had patents. Moreover I made 20
>  cards myself which not even exist in Germany. Cards Nr 2-5
>  normally don’t exist at all in all 4 colors.
>  
I see. I've read up a bit on this topic, see [1] and [2] for answers
from German lawyers. Given the information you've added, I don't think
we'll get into problems with these cards as long as the images are just
similar but not identical to the cards of an existing publisher.


>   he deviantart ones are under CCL.
>  
There are several Creative Commons licenses, some require crediting the
author at prominent places. Please check this and add all license
information for all used images to a small textfile in the image folder.
Afterwards, we can see if more crediting is required.


>   So, yes, you may be right, I might have misinterpreted
> free to use in
>  new French front matters that way I can use em in a LGPL library, too.
>  They are still free to use, aren’t they? Sorry if I might be wrong here.
>  If so, I can try to contact that guy of course.
>  
Free to use usually only applies to private use. By putting them in SVN
and future ReactOS releases, we're actually redistributing them.
Please contact the author and put his answer into the textfile as well.


Cheers,

Colin

[1] http://www.frag-einen-anwalt.de/---f148655.html
[2] http://www.frag-einen-anwalt.de/---f17715.html