Re: CC license logos/buttons
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 06:01, Richard Fontana<rfontana(a)redhat.com> wrote:
With the licensing switch from OPL to CC-BY-SA, there is some
interest
in using Creative Commons' logos and CC-BY-SA license button image
thingies in generated Fedora documentation and the Fedora wiki. This is
raising some questions about whether we can actually package the
logo/button thingies in Publican and whether indeed such content can be
used on Fedora websites.
Based on discussions I have had with Spot, the default terms of use for
such content[1] clash with Fedora legal policy concerning freely
redistributable content. Moreover, based on preliminary communication
with lawyers for Creative Commons I believe we do not have permission
to package these logo/button thingies in Publican, regardless of Fedora
legal policy.
We are planning on exploring with Creative Commons' lawyers the
possibility of getting sufficient additional permission to address some
of these impediments, but for the time being we should assume that the
CC logo/button thingies can't be used by Fedora.
- RF
[1]See http://creativecommons.org/policies
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Richard E. Fontana
Red Hat, Inc.
Good Morning Richard,
Ahhh... I see what you mean. The page says:
Creative Commons License Buttons: The Creative Commons buttons that
describe a key term of our license, such as BY, NC, ND, SA, Sampling,
Sampling Plus and Noncommercial Sampling Plus may only be used in the
context of pointing to a Creative Commons license on the Creative
Commons server that includes that license term or to otherwise
describe the Creative Commons license, that includes that license term
and that applies to a particular work.
But we can't "point" to the website because these are books and not a
webpage. I went through the license survey again and noted for
"offline" work that we should use the following text:
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to
Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco,
California, 94105, USA.
It doesn't say anything about using the image.
Thanks for the catch!
--Eric