[Kde-games-devel] Artwork Licensing and "Mountain Adventure"

[Eugene Trounev]

As far as me, and/or any of my artwork is concerned - you may freely use it in 
any manner you may find necessary. I hereby grant you a full permission to 
use, distribute, re-license, change, or clone the aforementioned piece of my 
artwork. ( LOL ) Knock yourself out :P

On Sunday 04 of January 2009 15:36:01 Parker Coates wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> All this talk of porting the "Mountain Adventure" theme from Killbots
> to Kapman has reminded me of some questions I meant to ask long ago.
>
> First, here's some background information:
> - The sprites in the "Mountain Adventure" theme were first used in a
> Gnobots2 theme (the Gnome version of "robots"). [1]
> - That theme, called "boo" [2], was created by Nicu Buculei. [3]
> - Gnobots2 is a GPL2+ application. The SVG theme file itself doesn't
> contain any explicit copyright or licence.
> - The background is a simplified version of a beautiful background
> it-s posted to kde-look.org. [4]
> - The background is released under the GPL but contains no explicit
> copyright.
>
> So my question is what do I (in my Killbots theme) have to do to
> ensure GPL compliance? All files in question are GPL, so I don't think
> there's an issue there, but what do I do about copyrights and
> attribution? If we were talking about source code, I would simply take
> the copyright statements from the "borrowed" source files and include
> them with my own in the new file, but that doesn't work here as
> neither file seems to have a copyright.
>
> At moment I simply give credit in the description section of the
> theme's .desktop file ("Sprites by Nicu Buculei. Background by Eugene
> Trounev.") but is that sufficient?
>
> This also raises an interesting question about KHNS integration. All
> artwork included in the KDEGames package is GPL by default, but is
> there any license applied to artwork downloaded via KHNS?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Parker
>
>
> [1] http://live.gnome.org/Robots
> [2] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-games/trunk/gnobots2/boo.svg?view=log
> [3] http://markmail.org/message/jrniglsel6pybdit
> [4] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/The+Mountain+Fog?content=42308
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