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Some sources of images with an open license.
eekhoornstaartlolly:
Never knew that rockbox was so strict about this kinda things.
i really never look to the copyright before I start spreading them, though I don't have a community like rockbox with 1000s of users.
Why the strictness, never knew that there where ever any problems with copyright images?
Llorean:
The GPL depends on copyright law to be effective. It would be rather hypocritical to say "We want our copyrights respected, but we're not interested in respecting the copyrights of others" wouldn't it?
AlexP:
--- Quote from: eekhoornstaartlolly on April 21, 2008, 05:28:51 AM ---Never knew that rockbox was so strict about this kinda things.
i really never look to the copyright before I start spreading them, though I don't have a community like rockbox with 1000s of users.
Why the strictness, never knew that there where ever any problems with copyright images?
--- End quote ---
We expect other people to respect our copyright, and therefore we respect other people's copyright. The problem with distributing copyrighted images that you do not have a right to do so is illegal. In order to distribute any themes you need to have a clear licence allowing to use all the contents, be they images, icons, whatever. If you have any unlicensed themes on the wiki, please remove them, or fix them to be licensed. Thanks very much!
eekhoornstaartlolly:
:S sorry, didn't mean to be rude....
i was just wondering, never knew to find such a clean community. that's a compliment.
i understand what you are trying to say, and it is a very reasonable explenation. and no, I don't have a copyrighted picture uploaded. I actually never uploaded something that was copyrighted. I don't upload torrents, expect downloading them. and downloading is legal, but uploading isn't.
Sorry again if I was rude or made an annoying observation, I did not mean to do so.
Llorean:
According to the US Copyright Office:
"Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution."
Specifically downloading is infringing on the right of reproduction. Downloading it is just as illegal as uploading, at least in the US and anywhere with equivalent protective rights. Anyone who told you otherwise was simply spreading a somewhat common, but incorrect, myth.
We respect all copyright here. Unless something has a license saying otherwise, that means it's "All rights reserved."
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