[Clipart] [Fwd: Re: pro-community and the problems of the PublicDocument License and Clip Art]

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 08:35 +0300, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> > 
> > Nothing can stop you to create one image and submit it as LGPL to OOo 
> > and as PD to OCAL, so you can go for their money, someone will have to 
> > win in the end.
> 
> I think I have a really evil idea about this: join their contest and 
> make it irrelevant.
> We can flood the OOo contest with thousands of our existing high quality 
> clipart images. Those, by quality and quantity have a real chance to 
> win. The winner will be featured in the news, perhaps in an interview, 
> where he can reveal the futility of the OOo contest when OCAL is already 
> existing and after that take the prize money and use them to improve 
> OCAL (keep our own contests, improve infrastructure etc.)

This doesn't sound evil to me, but rather like a great idea! 

I think though the intention should be really to win this thing for OCAL
and that its about making the larger clip art community stronger by
submitting and growing the community, right ;)

Jon

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