<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28. Jan 2019, at 13:23, Krešimir Čohar <<a href="mailto:kcohar@gmail.com" class="">kcohar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I don't think there are any problems with using public domain images, and even if there were I'd rather view them as challenges to overcome than obstacles to avoid.</span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>This is not necessarily a question of what we think. This is a question of what we as a community can and should distribute. For that, we need at least explicit permission from the author, as in a FOSS license. There has been a very long debate on the use of public domain works in FOSS, and the summary AFAIK is “it is complicated” and “it depends on the jurisdiction”. A great summary can be found here: <a href="https://opensource.org/node/878:" class="">https://opensource.org/node/878:</a> "an open source user or developer cannot safely include public domain source code in a project."<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">> These are both non-free licences and we can not ship files which can<br class="">only be copied with their restrictions.<br style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);" class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Why not? As far as Unsplash goes, their only restriction is not to start a competing service, which is not even remotely what we are trying to do. Surely that is a reasonable and acceptable restriction. It's not unlike the copyleft restrictions ("freedoms") of the GPL.</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Because we are a free software community.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I think we need to untangle the discussion:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">The Unsplash license looks like a FOSS license to me.</li><li class="">The Pexel license is clearly not a free software license as it comes with other restrictions.</li><li class="">The CC0 and other public domain licenses bring in complexity without a clear benefit.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mirko.</div></div><div class="">
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