Re: source for artwork
Hi,
there is just one thing I'd like to add to the discussion to keep in
mind:
* Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com> [2014-02-22 15:28:37 CET]:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:08:37PM -0600, David Bate wrote:
> > > > I had read redeclipse's debian/copyright as saying that its
> > > > maintainer knows (or at least strongly believes) that a preferred
> > > > form for modification exists, and that it is not included. If I'm
> > > > wrong about that, and we are in fact distributing the most
> > > > modifiable form that the project is aware of, it might well be OK
> > > > for main. Ask the maintainer and the ftpmasters?
> >
> > I think that this may actually be the case. Of course, it mostly
> > depends upon why the comments in the original debian/copyright were put
> > there, but the data in the upstream svn seems to be the same as in the
> > debian source.
>
> The reason I put those comments there is indeed that I do not believe
> the content in redeclipse-data nor in the upstream SVN is the "preferred
> for for modification" for many things.
The "preferred form for modification" phrase comes from the GPL, and I
don't see redeclipse covered under the GPL?
Can we please not apply GPL terms to non-GPL work, pretty please?
The discussion itself is years old, and the outcome never was really
fruitful in any direction. People tend to agree that they would (for
obvious reasons) prefer "proper" source for artwork; but when it comes
to defining what proper is, the discussion usually ends pretty quickly,
and noone is willing to take a stand of either throwing out almost all
artwork we have within Debian[1], or finally agree that this is a topic
that most of us don't have anything to say about. Who in this thread is
actually a composer or graphics artist and can tell us whether they
a.) had to adjust their work, and
b.) what they used to do that
Before we hear their story, I don't think it's up to us "coding nerds"
to decide what the preferred form for them is.
An interesting read, just in case you are interesting, was written
years ago by Jetrel, art director of the Wesnoth project, and you can
read his statement here:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?p=308829#p308829
Thanks,
Rhonda
[1] When people complained about the non-free license of the Debian
swirl, nobody did anything to get all the swirl graphics that live in
packages in main removed from the archive. Why should be we more
strict on stuff that isn't even ours.
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