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Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo



On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:16:44 +0100 Måns Rullgård wrote:

> No, for a photograph the source is the actual physical object you've
> made a picture of, so a photograph can never be free.

No, it's not. The actual physical object is not the preferred form for
making modifications to the work (i.e. the photograph): it's the
preferred form for recreating a similar work from scratch.

>  Either this, or
> a photograph should be considered as source.

Source code is the preferred form for modification.
In the case of a photograph, if the digital camera stores pictures in
JPEG format, you must start from that. It won't necessarily be your
preferred form for making modifications to the work, but it may be.

> 
> In your case, your best bet would probably be to provide the
> photograph without the text, or (even better) provide the image in a
> more advanced format (e.g. XCF) with the photograph and text in
> different layers.

In the case of a photograph with a text over it, preferred form for
modification will probably be a layered image format: then that format
is the source code form.

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