[Clipart] Public Domain cliparts

[Jon Phillips]

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On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:14 AM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> In reference to cliparts below. The following is a conversation for
> keeping. I'm sending it to the mailing list in case there is any doubt in
> the future. I'm also going to remove the pd_issue tag from the cliparts
> involved.
>
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
>
>
> <chovynz> Is someone here an admin for Wesnoth? I'm looking for someone
> who can answer an potential copyright infringement question.<zookeeper> go
> ahead and ask and someone will reply sooner or later<chovynz> I'm a
> librarian on the Openclipart.org website. We host Public Domain cliparts for
> anyone to use. Awhile ago someone uploaded a character that is described as
> a Wesnoth character. I'm checking to see if those cliparts are actually
> Public domain or if they are copyrighted in any way. The cliparts can be
> found at http://www.openclipart.org/detail/16636,
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/16656,...<chovynz> ...and
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/16748<chovynz> They look very similar to
> the characters on the wiki already, so I was wondering if we need to do
> something about the Openclipart ones.<chovynz>
> http://wiki.wesnoth.org/WesnothFigures#Konrad <zookeeper>chovynz, those
> pictures themselves aren't from wesnoth, and i doubt any of our art devs or
> contributors drew them. obviously they're based on the wesnoth portraits,
> and especially the delfador one looks like it's just traced over the
> original.<chovynz>So does anyone know who drew the originals?<Vornicus> Wesnoth
> art is apparently technically under the GPL; I'm... not entirely certain
> what that means for non-code things.<chovynz> Still, GPL isn't PD as far
> as I'm aware. If we are unable to get the original authors permission, I
> think we may have to remove these cliparts. (which is a real shame because
> they are fantastic!)<chovynz> Would there be someone here who can see the
> history of that page and let me know who uploaded those pix?<zookeeper> just
> wait a moment, you'll get an answer of some kind in a bit..<zookeeper> chovynz,
> jetrel is the artist who drew the originals, and he says he doesn't have a
> problem with it, so no, you don't have to remove them. those are notably
> lower-quality drawings based on the originals anyway, not direct derivative
> works IMO<zookeeper> you can look at the original konrad and delfador
> portraits here:
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/data/campaigns/Heir_To_The_Throne/images/portraits/
> <zookeeper> well, actually he linked to those himself already, it seems...
> <chovynz> Thank you. You're sure they can be used with the Public Domain
> licence? once there that decision is irreversible. See
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ for more info.<zookeeper
> > i don't think that distributing those as PD would be in violation of
> jetrel's copyrights. sounds like a rather far-fetched idea since as you can
> see, they're different drawings, even if based on jetrel's portraits.<
> zookeeper> and even in the (IMO very unlikely) case that someone could
> argue that there's a problem, you can be sure jetrel wouldn't sue anyone
> over those.<chovynz>Well I guess we can leave them as is for now. Thanks
> for your work in checking for me. <zookeeper> no problem<zookeeper> <Jetrel>
> zookeeper: If it satisfies anyone, my original konrad/lisar can be public
> domain. I mean, fuck it.<zookeeper> i guess that should make it pretty
> clear there's no problem ;) <chovynz>lol.
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