Mirko Boehm (KDE) ha scritto:
Hello,
On 28. Jan 2019, at 13:23, Krešimir Čohar <kco...@gmail.com
<mailto:kco...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I don't think there are any problems with using public domain images, and
even if there were I'd rather view them as challenges to overcome than
obstacles to avoid.
This is not necessarily a question of what we think. This is a question of
what we as a community can and should distribute. For that, we need at least
explicit permission from the author, as in a FOSS license. There has been a
very long debate on the use of public domain works in FOSS, and the summary
AFAIK is “it is complicated” and “it depends on the jurisdiction”. A great
summary can be found here: https://opensource.org/node/878: "an open source
user or developer cannot safely include public domain source code in a project."
But the same article says that CC0 was born to overcome the complexity of the
definition of the public domain in different jurisdiction. It also says that
CC0 was not OSI-approved, thought.
Ciao
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Luigi