Brent, thanks for the information. I am forwarding it to the list because I think it is of general interest.
I am not sure I understand how we should notify users when a CC BY or CC BY_NC-SA (commercial). Do we have to show the author and copyright information along with the gradient when user chooses it? Also, whenever it is displayed, for example in the style manager main window? I can imagine a simple text with the author name and informal license tag, along with a link to get the entire copyright information. thank, Etienne On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:05 PM, <pcr...@pcreso.com> wrote: > CC BY-NC-SA is OK to distribute, but users cannot use them for commercial > purposes. This does need to be clear to users, that some palettes have such > constraints. > > CC-BY licences are effectively much the same as "Link requested", > "Attribution required", "Credit Requested". UK Open Licence also allows for > a BY requirement. > > Generally, all content/data/files released under such licences require the > licences, citations, disclaimers to be passed along with the content, and > to be applied whenever used. > > As long as the QGIS facility is able to notify the user of the licence > details whenever a file is used, my take would be that QGIS is meeting > licence requirements. > > Cheers, > > Brent > > --- On *Wed, 8/8/12, Etienne Tourigny <etourigny....@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Etienne Tourigny <etourigny....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] color ramp manager > To: "jjg" <j.j.gr...@gmx.fr> > Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 10:48 AM > > > Hi all, > > I have a few questions regarding the licensing restrictions regarding > the bundling of some gradient files from cpt-city. > > First I would like to thank J.J. Green for his past and future help, > both in creating his archive and in his advice and help. Much of this > information is based on feedback from him. > > Also it seems that the majority of the gradients made available in the > cpt-city package are free to distribute, as long as due attribution is > given. > > I would like confirmation that artwork with the following licenses are > OK for us to distribute with QGis (as long as we keep the licensing > information along with the gradient files): > > - GPL > - GPLv2 > - Apache > - BSD > - MIT > - identified as "public domain" > - Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) / > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ > - Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) / > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ > - Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) / > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > > > There are others which are less clear: > > - "Free to use", without any license (e.g. cl/ ). It is my > understanding that we CANNOT distribute them unless explicitly allowed > > - "Not specified" or no license information - safer not to distribute? > > - "Link requested" (e.g. ds/ fg/ ) - where would we put the link, just > keep them in the files? ds/ also says "can be used anywhere anytime" > but no mention on distribution > > - "Attribution required" / "Credit Requested" - ok as long as we keep > the copyright info ? > > - ESRI license is too complex for me, sorry. can someone have a look? > directory is ersi/ > > - "Disclaimer required" - the "New Jersey Geological Survey" gradients > require citation when they are used, better not to distribute then? > > - "UK Open Government Licence" (e.g. os/ , ukmo/) - > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ > > - gosquared "free for you to download and do whatever you want with > them" - http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/822 > > > So in general, if an author requires attribution or link, is it OK for > use to attribute and/or link by providing the original copyright > information? > > Etienne > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Etienne Tourigny > <etourigny....@gmail.com <http://mc/compose?to=etourigny....@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:56 PM, jjg > > <j.j.gr...@gmx.fr<http://mc/compose?to=j.j.gr...@gmx.fr>> > wrote: > >> > >> Etienne Tourigny-3 wrote > >>> > >>> I was thinking of an interface to make zip files from selection lists. > >>> The plugin would probably be suited for that, because it's not really > >>> part of the core and it's much easier to write this sort of thing in > >>> python. Ideally, we should have a point-n-click interface for > >>> generating these selections, but I think it would be too costly to > >>> implement. So a manual solution would probably be easiest on the > >>> short-term. Unless we feel it's necessary to have users make their own > >>> selections (by selecting favourites), and use that. > >>> > >>> Perhaps a first step would be using the cpt-city selections which can > >>> be distributed and generate a list from that. > >>> > >> > >> I dont think you need to make a selection "topo and free", just make > >> a selection "topo", and apply it to to the set of free files, ignoring > those > >> not present. This is quite generic, it can be used on the GUI, for > >> generating zipfiles, whatever. > > > > That's what I meant - identify if the directory can be distributed, > > and make a selection which would be filtered by the distribution flag. > > > > So you are suggesting to add tags to each file? I was thinking more > > like what you are doing: make a category an add the > > gradients/directories which are in that category. But what you are > > saying is basically the same. > > > >> > >> Selections should select only one thing, then different selections can > >> be combined to suit. "dark" + "spectral" = "dark spectral" ... > >> > >> > >> > >>> Do people feel that the existing cpt-city "selection" would be > >>> sufficient, or are there too many? > >>> > >> > >> If there are any others that could be useful for QGIS please > >> send me a list of file paths .. > > > > I will in due time, thanks > > > >> > >> > >> > >>> 3) testing the rendering of the gradients (I have a solution that > >>> compares the preview to the png's on the cpt-city website) > >>> > >> > >> Does the GUI render SVG? I ask because the cptutils svgx program > >> can add a preview to an svg gradient file (so it becomes "self > >> documenting"), so saving the bother of a extra png file or whatever. > > > > Actually the gui (inside qgis color ramp selector) parses the svg, and > > makes a preview pixmap. This is what qgis does for other gradients > > (ColorBrewer, user-defined both for the preview and the actual > > rendering). > > > > Thanks for the tip, I'll look into that. Qt can render svg files > > (presumably the preview you mention) with QSvgRenderer (part of the > > QtSvg Module) > > > > > >> > >> I considered adding these previews to the SVG gradients on the > >> cpt-city site, but with 6K files every byte in the file is 6KB on the > site > >> ... > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/color-ramp-manager-tp4993619p4993730.html > >> Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qgis-developer mailing list > >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<http://mc/compose?to=Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> > >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<http://mc/compose?to=Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >
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