[Clipart] rss Icon copyright?

Nathan Eady eady at galion.lib.oh.us
Tue Jun 29 12:49:41 PDT 2010


Nathan Eady <eady at galion.lib.oh.us> writes:

> chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> We need an answer on the rss icon copyright
>> [...]
>> According to wikipedia the feed icon is licenced under Mozilla's
>> MPL / GPL / LGPL tri-license. Can it be released under PD then?"
>
> GPL, LGPL, and MPL are all share-alike licenses...
> [...]
> OCAL definitely should not accept any submissions of artwork that
> are share-alike licensed.

For example:
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/13913
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/27647
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/36757
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67927

And obvious derivatives of that:
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/3691
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67915
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67921
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/67933

These should all be hidden.  Just because the icon is a de facto
standard for one particular use does NOT free it from its copyright
restrictions.

-- 
Nathan Eady
Galion Public Library



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