[Mageia-artwork] Did anyone check that...

[Donald Stewart]

On 26 March 2012 01:15, Sebastian sebsebseb <sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'll mention this on the artwork mailing list first, but I expect I can in
> the council meeting later as well:
>
> I recently thought of it again, did anyone check that the chosen background,
> was really made by the person that submitted it? That it wasn't for example
> found on the Internet and then submitted for inclusion in Mageia? Or even
> taken from proprietary software that included the image?
>
> Also how was it made? What program did they use to make it? I hope open
> source tools such as Gimp or Inkscape and not Photoshop for example.
>
> The above doesn't just apply to the default background it apply's to all of
> the ones that have been chosen for inclusion in Mageia.  Not much good
> releasing Mageia 2 or a future release, and then finding out that a
> background or more than one that was included in the distribution, was made
> by not the person who Mageia people thought it was made by, but someone
> else, and that actually it breaks copyright for example.
>
> It's also good to know how these backgrounds were made, and ideally they
> should be made using opensource/freesoftware, or maybe that should be a
> requirement even. Except for obviously just photos, since the camera makes
> those, but any editing can be done with open source tools.
>
> We are meant to be a opensource/freesoftware Linux distribution and so are
> artwork should be made using opensource/freesoftware tools as well really
> for sure.
>
> I don't think it's a good thing for Mageia to be in the kind of situation
> Ubuntu is in, where as far as I know a lot of their more recent artwork is
> made using Mac OS X and I think Photoshop as well. The Ubuntu font was made
> using Mac OS X for example.
>
> For marketing Mageia to some people, saying that the artwork was made using
> only opensource/freesoftware tools and being able to prove it, would work
> out to be quite a good thing.
>
> From Sebastian sebsebseb
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I know that a fair bit of 1's artwork was done in PS but i don't know
about the other stuff.

I think that plymouth is clean in both senses of the word, if the logo
and background are fine then so is ksplash. The screensavers are
mostly from me, and I have/had permission for cc-by-sa for the ones
that weren't.

I think that bootsplash is the same, as it is the background and some
home made graphics.