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[Rails-devel] Including CC art resources

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

There are a lot of art resources (icons,...) that could be included into rails.

But for me, the following is unclear:

(1) Is there a demand for this? (It may well increase of the size of rails.)

(2) How to deal with the CreativeCommons licences that such art
resources would have been licenced under?
Most commonly, there are two types of licences:
- Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
      - The web doesn't provide any conclusive statement whether
putting an attribution txt within rails' main folder would be enough
for this purpose
      - Or should the credits popups be amended for this purpose?
- Attribution with ShareAlike: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
      - ShareAlike appears to be a no-go as we don't want to share
rails under the CC licence (CC is even not intended for software)
      - But this would be a pity as most resources are by-sa and not only by

-- Frederick

Re: [Rails-devel] Including CC art resources

[Edward S. R. <ed...@we...>]

The legal code for by-sa is more explicit about what attribution means. 

>From section 4(c):

"The credit required by this Section 4(c) may be implemented in any reasonable manner; provided, however, that in the case of a Adaptation or Collection, at a minimum such credit will appear, if a credit for all contributing authors of the Adaptation or Collection appears, then as part of these credits and in a manner at least as prominent as the credits for the other contributing authors." 

Full text here - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

Using artwork licensed with by-sa shouldn't effect anything else in rails - since rails is GPLed anyway, there's no issues around commercial/non-commercial work and since artwork is generally considered to be bundled and thus doesn't have issues with different licences. At least as far as I understand the issues thus far :)

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On Saturday, 11 February 2012 at 07:18, Frederick Weld wrote:

> There are a lot of art resources (icons,...) that could be included into rails.
> 
> But for me, the following is unclear:
> 
> (1) Is there a demand for this? (It may well increase of the size of rails.)
> 
> (2) How to deal with the CreativeCommons licences that such art
> resources would have been licenced under?
> Most commonly, there are two types of licences:
> - Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
> - The web doesn't provide any conclusive statement whether
> putting an attribution txt within rails' main folder would be enough
> for this purpose
> - Or should the credits popups be amended for this purpose?
> - Attribution with ShareAlike: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> - ShareAlike appears to be a no-go as we don't want to share
> rails under the CC licence (CC is even not intended for software)
> - But this would be a pity as most resources are by-sa and not only by
> 
> -- Frederick
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Re: [Rails-devel] Including CC art resources

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

Master now contains an icon set for the action buttons and dockables.
Note the following:

- Built a framework for accessing icons and applied it for
ActionButton and Dockables
   - expanded RailsIcon and ActionButton
   - ActionButton: construction, setText not based on label text but
on RailsIcon enum instance
   - Added two options (display text/icon/both and small/large icons)
   - Icons can also be associated to dockable panels

- Added icon sets
   - Found some BY licensed icons for this purpose
   - Expanded the credits section according to Edward's comment
(thanks for the information/confirmation!)

-- Frederick

Re: [Rails-devel] Including CC art resources

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Frederick Weld <
fre...@go...> wrote:

> Master now contains an icon set for the action buttons and dockables.
> Note the following:
>
> - Built a framework for accessing icons and applied it for
> ActionButton and Dockables
>   - expanded RailsIcon and ActionButton
>   - ActionButton: construction, setText not based on label text but
> on RailsIcon enum instance
>   - Added two options (display text/icon/both and small/large icons)
>   - Icons can also be associated to dockable panels
>
> - Added icon sets
>   - Found some BY licensed icons for this purpose
>   - Expanded the credits section according to Edward's comment
> (thanks for the information/confirmation!)


I am not a lawyer, but I believe it is perfectly fine to use SA-BY content
in Rails.  The credit needs to go where other creates are (as Edward
suggested), and share-alike means we have to make the image available
(especially with any modifications, if we are just reusing it we can
probably get away with a URL where someone can get it), with any
modifications licensed the same way.

-- 
John A. Tamplin

Re: [Rails-devel] Including CC art resources

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

New in master: Extended the scope of the icon functionality to
- upgrade panel buttons
- non-modal dialog buttons (but not for modal dialogs)

-- Frederick

Re: [Rails-devel] Including CC art resources

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Frederick:
icon works fine.
I fixed the type in the filename of train.png.

Stefan


On 02/12/2012 07:37 AM, Frederick Weld wrote:
> New in master: Extended the scope of the icon functionality to
> - upgrade panel buttons
> - non-modal dialog buttons (but not for modal dialogs)
>
> -- Frederick
>
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Re: [Rails-devel] Including CC art resources

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

Stefan:
... which proves that we don't run the same OS... Thanks!

-- Frederick