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

[Ian Wadham]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:07:46 am Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> In order to be available with KDE the artwork needs to be licensed under
> a compatible license. GPL and LGPL are ok, as well as some others. The
> way I propose doing this for art is the one used in libkmahjongg, if you
> guys agree:
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdegames/libkmahjongg/tilesets/
>
> Basically, create next to your mountain.desktop file another one with
> the copyright information, called mountain.copyright. This makes things
> clearer for everyone. Agreed?
>
Looks good to me, except that, for example, the alphabet.copyright file
does not say (internally) for what artwork it is asserting copyright, i.e.
what "This" refers to.  I suggest something along the lines of:

    "Alphabet tileset copyright (C) 2007 ... etc."

i.e. state name of artwork.  It  might also be a good idea to list the
actual file(s) covered by the copyright.  In source-code, I guess "this"
is OK because the notice is included in the source-code file it covers.

Hate to be legalistic, but ...

Cheers, Ian W.