Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] GPL okay for art?

[Christoph E. <de...@ch...>]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:06:47PM -0400, M Gagnon wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> GPL is sure acceptable too.
> 
> -- Auria
> 
> 2009/10/9 Bart Kelsey <el...@gm...>
> 
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > The artist I'm talking to about the icons would rather release them under
> > the GPL.  Is that acceptable, or should I push for CC-BY-SA 3?
> >
> > Peace,
> > Bart
> >

Hi all!

	For using GPL in Artwork the most important thing to think of is
to make soure what is distributed is the *source*. Basically it is
illegal to distribute GPL work without providing the source
alongside. So if you e.g. export or scale down the Icons supertuxkart
must ship the originals alongside. There are even guys arguing that
distributing .jpg files under GPL is illegal as jpeg is a lossy format
;D

Regards

	Christoph

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