Should we ask Unsplash and/or the photographers if they'd be willing to release the photographs we selected (seeing as there aren't that many) as CC0?
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:25 AM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > The Unsplash license looks like a FOSS license to me. > > It is a non-free licence which we can not use. 'This license does not > include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a > similar or competing service.' > > > The CC0 and other public domain licenses bring in complexity without a > clear benefit. > > CC0 is a declaration not a licence and we really can't stop including > works in the public domain, as others have said it includes many > elements of what we ship including other works people have declared as > public domain, UI elements and APIs and indeed the complete works of > Shakespeare if we so wished. > > Jonathan >
