Re: [Gimp-developer] Due diligence: Permission for usage of GIMP

[C R <cajhne gmail com>]

All the more reason to offer a press kit of materials that are clearly okay
for people and companies to use to promote GIMP. It's ambiguous otherwise
because while the GIMP software is copyleft, the branding and materials may
not be, and it's a pain for companies to pick out what's okay to use, and
for what purpose. We need to make that clear. I'll submit a patch for a
press kit section of the website in the coming week and we can gather
opinions from the GIMP team about what to include and exclude. This is free
and important advertising for the project. We should make it easy to share
and promote GIMP as a tool for everyone to enjoy for business and personal
use.
On 22 Jun 2015 1:42 pm, "Bill Skaggs" <weskaggs gmail com> wrote:

> Actually there is nobody who has the right to give special permission.  The
> GIMP software and manual are both released under very specific copyright
> conditions.  The GIMP web site is copyrighted by "The GIMP Team".  The
> members of the team are listed at http://www.gimp.org/team.html, but there
> is no statement that any particular person has the right to release the
> material under altered conditions.  In short, the licenses and copyright
> law give you certain rights, and nobody in the GIMP project has the power
> to alter those rights.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr. <
> adsharpesr ironrookcomputing com> wrote:
>
> > On 6/21/2015 7:57 PM, Gez wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think that requires permission.
> > > Using application screenshots is a fair use (as long as they don't
> > > depict anything objectionable or illegal, I think). Linking back to the
> > > official site gimp.org is a good thing too, you're sending your users
> > > to the place where the actual project lives and where its official docs
> > > can be found.
> > >
> > > As C R just said, I'm also curious about the details of your project.
> > > Just out of curiosity :-)
> > I didn't think that it'd be a problem, however, companies can never be
> too
> > careful. We are primarily a high performance computer hardware company.
> > We're trying to push PC-BSD, in an effort to show that the BSDs aren't
> > second or third class systems & can perform as well as any other
> > system...or better! At this point, the Linux users have their venues for
> > consumer hardware. The major players have experiemented with it & then
> > there're companies like System 76 out there. Now, PC-BSD has a systems
> ally
> > for consumer. Powerful enough for a system's admin, but comfortable
> enough
> > for your parents!
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Apollo D. Sharpe, Sr.
> > Iron Rook Computing, LLC
> > Member/Owner
> >
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