[Clipart] A few more images that might have public-domain issues

Nathan Eady eady at galion.lib.oh.us
Thu May 20 09:38:03 PDT 2010


Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro> writes:

> http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/ quoting the author: "Feel
> free to do whatever you see fit with the images, you are encouraged
> to integrate them into other designs that fit your need" - that
> sounds to me pretty much like PD, please untag.

It's not PD.  Quoting from the same page:

> provided you acknowledge me lewing at isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP if
> someone asks.

That's effectively an attribution license.  The problems with
including attribution-licensed works in a public domain clip art
collection should be pretty obvious if you think about it.

> The GNU logo is copyrighted by FSF:
> http://www.gnu.org/graphics/heckert_gnu.html

Yeah, I suspected something like that.

-- 
Nathan Eady
Galion Public Library



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