Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arwyn Hainsworth wrote: On 10/03/07, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? The FSF has a list of GPL compliant licenses[1]. None of the Creative Commons Licenses seem to be compatible. Oops, I replied earlier but forgot to hit reply-to-list.. A program doesn't have to be GPL to be in the main archive. For example the Ubuntu documentation (ubuntu-docs) are licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Lots of other things are under non-gpl licences, firefox and apache are two big examples, there are tonnes more. Dean -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8wfjeedO8dcp9nYRAtSVAJ9N+wwOWUGxsx9dfG8LdVAxSJaxUQCdGESS /H2yk7e+P6A8I+NCbexUPB8= =tg4C -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
Alec Wright wrote: Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with the GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? On 09/03/07, *Conrad Knauer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add a note to this thread, I just realized that most (if not all) of the Wikipedia featured images would have acceptable licenses and there are specific categories for those that would make good background images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_desktop_backgrounds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_widescreen_desktop_backgrounds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_featured_widescreen_desktop_backgrounds CK Creative Commons is a modular system - some licenses are free and some not free. Licenses with -NC (non-commercial) are non free. You need to look out for -ND (no derivatives) too. There should be none of those on wikimedia commons, certainly not as featured images. Unlike en.wikipedia.org, commons.wikimedia.org doesn't accept fair use and other non-free images. Caroline -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:13 -0500, t u wrote: I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 Revive ubuntu-calendar thanks :) That's not quite the same thing. I mean the wallpapers as in desktop backgrounds which you change in this dialogue: http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotdesktopbackgrfy6.jpg But if ubuntu-calendar is revived, some of the photos from there could be made into desktop backgrounds. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:40 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: I always install gnome-backgrounds. There are actually quite a few GPL (not sure how that applies to photos, but whatever) packages of excellent backgrounds. Not many are included in the Ubuntu repositories though. OpenSuSE has a few I like that can be had from this source rpm (file-roller should be able to extract it for you), for instance: http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/src/desktop-data-SuSE-10.3-13.src.rpm According to the spec file in that source rpm the license is GPL. - Andrew Uploaded to art.ubuntu.com: http://art.ubuntu.com/main.php?g2_itemId=5823 --- Alec Wright -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
More Ubuntu Wallpapers
Hi All, I've been wandering recently, why doesn't Ubuntu come with more wallpapers? It currently only comes with three wallpapers, all of which are made on the computer; whereas Windows XP comes with lots of very nice wallpapers, including actual photos. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here are a few examples (I home Microsoft don't hunt me down for this): http://img400.imageshack.us/my.php?image=autumnbi1.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=azuldd6.jpg http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stonehengegj9.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tulipsvy3.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blissai9.jpg I am aware that because Ubuntu is free and open source, it would not be possible to hire professional photographers, but I expect that there would be some people in the Ubuntu community willing to donate photos which they have taken to Ubuntu. For example, if you went on holiday and took a picture of an important landmark, and the photo looked professional, the photo could be considered for inclusion in Ubuntu as a desktop background, if the photographer was willing to publish it under an appropriate license. An obvious way of getting pictures form photographer to developer is via art.ubuntu.com. The higher rated user uploaded photos should be considered by the developers for inclusion in Ubuntu. --- Alec Wright -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 Revive ubuntu-calendar thanks :) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
t u wrote: I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 Revive ubuntu-calendar thanks :) I uploaded some featured images from wikimedia commons to art.ubuntu.com. They are all under free licenses. I selected ones in shades of brown to match the ubuntu colour scheme. Caroline -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers
On 3/5/07, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've been wandering recently, why doesn't Ubuntu come with more wallpapers? It currently only comes with three wallpapers, all of which are made on the computer; whereas Windows XP comes with lots of very nice wallpapers, including actual photos. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here are a few examples (I home Microsoft don't hunt me down for this): http://img400.imageshack.us/my.php?image=autumnbi1.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=azuldd6.jpg http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stonehengegj9.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tulipsvy3.jpg http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blissai9.jpg I am aware that because Ubuntu is free and open source, it would not be possible to hire professional photographers, but I expect that there would be some people in the Ubuntu community willing to donate photos which they have taken to Ubuntu. For example, if you went on holiday and took a picture of an important landmark, and the photo looked professional, the photo could be considered for inclusion in Ubuntu as a desktop background, if the photographer was willing to publish it under an appropriate license. An obvious way of getting pictures form photographer to developer is via art.ubuntu.com. The higher rated user uploaded photos should be considered by the developers for inclusion in Ubuntu. by the way, the photographer who took some of the background pictures used for Vista put some of the pictures that didn't make the cut into Vista on his web site. http://www.hamaddarwish.com/ That could be a nice PR move by Canonical to ask him to do a photoshoot for a future version of Ubuntu :) -- Daniel Robitaille -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
