Re: sound, images, GPL and other licenses

[Richard Hoelscher <rah rahga com>]

Unless the media or author has explicitly stated otherwise, the graphics and sound are considered to be part of the program as a whole and are be licensed under the GPL. 

Some of the art I've contributed is public domain, especially the work that's really a modification of artwork that's well over 100 years old. I will never relicense my stuff under creative commons, but only because I can't quite fit my mind around the "Here, have a music video mashup about share-alike patents and communal self-infatuation!" mindset. :)

-Richard Hoelscher
http://rahga.com/svg (for that old stuff...)

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:08:45 +0100, Thilo Pfennig <email pfennigsolutions de> wrote:
> Hi, as I browsed some of the wav files in the gnome games one question
> crossed my mind:
> 
> Are all these images licensed under GPL? Is this also true for the
> images and other art data?
> 
> If yes I thought if it might not be a good idea to dual license all
> these stuff also under another license like CC-BY-SA-2.5
>  and to put it online as seperate data?
> 
> Why?
> 
> To enable people to download and work on it and without following the
> more strict GPL rules. Also i think GNOME could use some more of free
> music, sounds and graphics that are now increasingly availabe under
> Creative Commons licenses.
> 
> I would like to see a place where game maintainers put and get their
> material on. Some sounds can be shared or at least remixed. See also
> http://ccmixter.org/
> 
> What y think?
> 
> Thilo
> 
> 
> 
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> Thilo Pfennig
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> http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/
> 
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