[Clipart] were there any really great reasons for PD at openclipart?

[Jon Phillips]

Yes, because it lowers transaction costs most. We used PD with the idea
that its socially good for others to attribute...we just didn't want to
legally enforce all the possible uses of a contribution.

We thought about it a lot.

Jon

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:26 +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
> Just to make it clear, not all content on openicon is PD.
> I'm negotiating this...
> 
> 
> were there any really great reasons for PD at openclipart?
> need some additional ammo.
> one significant contributor is insisting on attribution.
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> 
> ~:"
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> Jonathan Chetwynd
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> On 19 Aug 2008, at 11:04, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Also, I would add, that we don't have an official graphical browser.
> > There are projects like Jonathan's that use Open Clip Art Library
> > for
> > content and traffic. That is just fine, as all content is PD and no
> > one
> > has gotten the task done on OCAL.
> > 
> > Of course, we'd love to have a built-in way.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 08:50 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > > noreply at openclipart.org wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Hi Alberto,
> > > 
> > > > Why doesn't the browsing interface show the picture for each
> > > > item? It is just impossible to search for anything with such an
> > > > interface.
> > > 
> > > We are fully aware of that, is the feedback we receive the most
> > > (and we 
> > > also endure the pain when we try to use the site)
> > > 
> > > > Just before you say that it is easy to comment but do nothing,
> > > > the previous interface for Open Clipart Library with thumbnails
> > > > was designed by me.
> > > 
> > > Since we moved to the current solution we hoped someone will
> > > contribute 
> > > the enhancement. Along this time we had a number of people who
> > > started 
> > > to work on that but usually we haven't heard anything back.
> > > 
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