OT?: GNU Public License for files

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

Slightly OT, but perhaps not totally unrelated, how does one release
some pictures (jpg files) for the GNU Public License v3? I went to
wikimedia and noticed that there is no slot for this, only Creative
Commons. On the other hand, there are JPGs there that are released
under the GPL, so I was wondering about how to go about that.

As an aside, is the GPL the better license for pictures and images, or
is the CC license better?

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan

[Marcel Hellwig]

Am 09.01.2013 16:16, schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> Hi,
>
> Slightly OT, but perhaps not totally unrelated, how does one release
> some pictures (jpg files) for the GNU Public License v3? I went to
> wikimedia and noticed that there is no slot for this, only Creative
> Commons. On the other hand, there are JPGs there that are released
> under the GPL, so I was wondering about how to go about that.
>
> As an aside, is the GPL the better license for pictures and images, or
> is the CC license better?
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan

GPL is not made for images, but for source code. If you want to share
medias like music, pictures, movies, slideshows you better use CCL.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/243196/what-is-the-difference-between-cre...

Regards
Marcel

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:22:18 +0100 Marcel Hellwig 
wrote:
> Am 09.01.2013 16:16, schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Slightly OT, but perhaps not totally unrelated, how does one release
> > some pictures (jpg files) for the GNU Public License v3? I went to
> > wikimedia and noticed that there is no slot for this, only Creative
> > Commons. On the other hand, there are JPGs there that are released
> > under the GPL, so I was wondering about how to go about that.
> >
> > As an aside, is the GPL the better license for pictures and images, or
> > is the CC license better?
> >
> > Many thanks and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
>
> GPL is not made for images, but for source code. If you want to share
> medias like music, pictures, movies, slideshows you better use CCL.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/243196/what-is-the-difference-between-cre...
>
> Regards
> Marcel

Thanks for this information: it makes sense! How does one go about
getting this CCL license? On Wikimedia, it appears that one just
declares the license, but what if I am not posting on wikimedia? Does
one just claim it in the file?

Many thanks again!
Ranjan

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 09:16:23 -0600,
   Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Slightly OT, but perhaps not totally unrelated, how does one release
> some pictures (jpg files) for the GNU Public License v3? I went to
> wikimedia and noticed that there is no slot for this, only Creative
> Commons. On the other hand, there are JPGs there that are released
> under the GPL, so I was wondering about how to go about that.
>
> As an aside, is the GPL the better license for pictures and images, or
> is the CC license better?

Note that there are many CC licenses, some of which aren't free. You should 
pick one that matches your needs.

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On 1/9/13, Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:22:18 +0100 Marcel Hellwig 
> wrote:
> Thanks for this information: it makes sense! How does one go about
> getting this CCL license? On Wikimedia, it appears that one just
> declares the license, but what if I am not posting on wikimedia? Does
> one just claim it in the file?

Pretty much.  Something like "This work is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" will do the trick.
You'll notice they have a "Use this license for your own work" link at
the bottom of the previous link with useful tips, icons, and such.

The Attribution-ShareAlike license is probably the closest in spirit
to the GPL, I might add.

-T.C.