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...
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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Von: Colin Finck Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2014 10:45 An: ReactOS Development List Cc: Daniel Reimer
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
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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Von: Colin Finck Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2014 13:29 An: ros-dev@reactos.org
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
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