Screenshot Licensing

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 19.10.11 01:07:33, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 October 2011 15:25:10 Rohan Garg wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am at the GSoC Doc Sprint in Mountain View and we need to put in
> > screenshots of KDevelop in our book. I was thinking of putting in the
> > screenshots from the KDevelop site but I need to specify a license for them
> > in the book. Could someone tell me as to what license the screenshots are
> > released under?
> > 
> > Regards
> > Rohan Garg
> > 
> > PS : I'm not subscribed to this ML, please CC me in the replies.
> 
> Both, Aleix and me say it's OK to use that but neither is the author of it. 
> But I'm pretty sure it's from one of the other code KDevelop hackers - Adymo? 
> Andreas?

Not from me, I don't use split-views :)

> Since I doubt they have anything against it, go ahead in using it and expect 
> it to be in public domain.

This is actually not ok. You need a written permit of the creator of an
image to give Rohan an ok or not and to change the licensing. Don't we
have a licensing/legal group in KDE that can comment on these things?

Andreas