Quoting John Sullivan (2014-09-05 04:26:36) > Luke Faraone <luke@faraone.cc> writes: > >> On 4 September 2014 13:38, martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> wrote: >>> also sprach Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@gmail.com> [2014-09-04 12:33 -0700]: >>>> On a side note: I am note aware of any legal or privacy problems >>>> occuring from uploading public CC/GPL-licensed photos to either >>>> Google Plus or Flickr (paid version in both cases) >>> >>> Do their terms of service not include any form of implicit copyright >>> transferral, e.g. what Facebook does? IANAL, but if you upload a >>> picture to Facebook, you are giving it to them for whatever their >>> use may be. If that use is in violation of the licence on the data, >>> then I'd say *you* as the uploader are the one breaching the >>> licence. >> >> http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/05/13/at-flickr-your-photos-are-always-yours/ >> >> The terms do not seem to have materially changed in the interim. >> >> This appears to be similar to the license given to Facebook at >> <https://www.facebook.com/terms.php>: >> > > Those licenses seem incompatible with CC-BY-SA and such (when it comes > to photos by not yourself), since they require giving the site a > license which permits some proprietary redistribution. If you mean "those are not strong copyleft licenses" then I agree - and am not surprised. If you mean "those licenses are not suitable for our redistribution" then (I personally dislike it but) believe that's not a problem for Debian if the copyright holder (i.e. the photographer, I assume) is fine with it. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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