On 10 September 2014 22:50, Frank Lin PIAT <fp...@klabs.be> wrote: > All proposed solution looks like a division by zero error.
There are conflicting requirements - covering Debconf (either with photo or video) requires a lot of images of people while privacy concerns require not to take images of people. > So the only option seems to use a "white list" of people would are happy > to have their picture published. There was 300 attendes and many > thousands pictures (taken by Aigars and every other attendees). Even a blacklist is practically impossible to realize while maintaining even just a good coverage of the event. Whitelisting? Forget about all photo coverage and just have video of just the slides. Anything else will be practically impossible. > There is one thing that make me uncomfortable: Some pictures of $me, and > all the "privacy conscious DebConf attendees" are published on some > website which license states "you grant us a [..] transferable, > sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use.." another > license states "...worldwide [..] license to reproduce, adapt, modify, > translate, publish" (thanks to Luke Faraone for pointing that[1]). > > Would it be possible to proscribe all service which aren't under a > license like "don't copy, don't modify, except for your personal use, > unless you obtain permission from the people on the picture ?" > > The good old "gallery.debconf.org" had no license, so "don't copy, don't > modify, don't published" applied there. Me and most other photographers at Debconf that I know of distributed the photos under DFSG-free licences like either of GPLv2+ or MIT or CC-BY or a combination of them. All of those grant exactly the same rights to everyone that you quoted above from the supposedly evil website, whether it is uploaded to the (unusable) gallery.debconf.org or to any other service. Having any photos licensed like you propose will make them unredistributable and absolutely pointless. Viewing a photo from a website in your browser is copying, in case you were not aware of that. And creating a smaller version of a photo (like gallery software does either on upload or on demand) is modification. I would have assumed that you were joking in your suggestions, but it was quite long and without any smilies, so I thought a serious answer was warranted, just in case. -- Best regards, Aigars Mahinovs mailto:aigar...@debian.org #--------------------------------------------------------------# | .''`. Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) | | : :' : Latvian Open Source Assoc. (http://www.laka.lv) | | `. `' Linux Administration and Free Software Consulting | | `- (http://www.aiteki.com) | #--------------------------------------------------------------# _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss