Re: Mass bug filing about non free lena image.
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Jakub Wilk wrote:
Has anybody asked the copyright holders to release the image under a free
license? Or is everybody assuming that they won't?
Even if the image were free it is still disparaging to women. From the
lintian message [0]: "Moreover, Lenna photo has been pointed to as an
example of sexism in the sciences, reinforcing gender stereotypes."
Best,
Jack
[0] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/license-problem-non-free-img-lenna.html
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