FUDCon Boston Artwork

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 4 19:31:14 UTC 2008


Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Max Spevack wrote:
>>> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think the one with the pru in it (design #1) is better. You could 
>>>> consider it final I think. The only concern is that it's derived 
>>>> from a Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic photo. Is that okay? If 
>>>> not I can probably go out and shoot some photos of the skyline and 
>>>> redo this weekend.
>>>
>>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
>>>
>>> So we're not going to sell the shirts and admission to FUDCon is 
>>> free, which means that it's not "commercial".
>>
>> Well the "non-commercial" clause in the CC licenses are problematic 
>> for various reasons including the issue of defining what exactly is 
>> considered commercial activity. I think using a different picture that 
>> allows commercial activity is better.
> 
> but it is just a tshirt right? and they're not going to be sold...

I understand that but the license clauses might not and when there is 
ambiguity, licensee intend matters a lot which we do not know about.

> 
> I can ask the photographer?

Ironically that was one of those CC licenses was meant to avoid but go 
ahead. If we get a explicit permission, that is always safer. Thanks.

Rahul




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