Request for Permission to Use GCompris Screenshots in Our Book

[Timothée Giet]

Le 18/05/2026 à 09:11, Văn Hào Lục a écrit :
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> Dear GCompris Development Team,
>
> My name is Luc Van Hao, and I am writing on behalf of our publishing team.
>
> We are currently preparing a book related to educational software and 
> learning activities for children. We would like to respectfully 
> request permission to use several screenshots from the GCompris 
> application in our publication.
>
> The screenshots would be used solely for educational and illustrative 
> purposes within the book. Full credit to GCompris and the KDE 
> community will be clearly acknowledged.
>
> If possible, we would greatly appreciate your written permission for 
> this usage. Please let us know if there are any attribution 
> requirements or conditions that we should follow.
>
> Thank you very much for your time and for developing such a valuable 
> educational project. We look forward to your response.
>
> Best regards,
> Luc Van Hao
> Editorial Staff, Northern Books and Education Materials Ltd.
> Vietnam Education Publishing House
>
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> 0784176186 - Lục Văn Hào

Hi Luc,

Thanks for contacting us.

The images of GCompris are under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 
4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. This means they can be reused freely as long 
as the result stays under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Please read 
this page for the full details: 
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

If you only use screenshots, it should be fine as long as you give them 
proper license and attribution, something like this:

"Images from GCompris software by Timothée Giet and others (KDE 
community), 2000-2026 (https://gcompris.net), licensed under Creative 
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)".

Note that if you also reuse images from GCompris (not screenshots) as 
illustrations, the best would be for your book to also be under CC BY-SA 
4.0 license. Though if you want to use a different license for your 
book, I would say it may be OK if you license at least specifically the 
chapters including those illustrations under CC BY-SA 4.0 (as those can 
be considered derivative work). In any case, at the very least, the 
images themselves should have appropriate attribution and license as 
explained above.

Best regards,

Timothée - GCompris team