[Mageia-discuss] Author of mageia background

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Thu, 31 May 2012 10:04:06 +0200
Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org> wrote:

> 2012/5/31 Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de>:
> > Am 31.05.2012 09:25, schrieb Anne nicolas:
> >
> >> 2012/5/31 Romain d'Alverny<rdalverny at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Thorsten van Lil<tvl83 at gmx.de>
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I doubled the image, rotated the copy, work a bit with
> >>>> transparent, contrast
> >>>> and brightness and it clearly looks as the mageia wallpaper.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Thorsten.
> >>>
> >>>> So, we can be sure, that the wallpaper is a derivative work of
> >>>> the one on
> >>>> deviantart.com. However, we should confront Luiz with this. Who
> >>>> will do this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I mailed him directly and posted a separate comment on the
> >>> deviantart thread, asking to contact me or council directly.
> >>
> >>
> >> Whatever happening, we will prepare a blog post to let people know
> >> about this and also change artwork and rebuild all isos...
> >>
> >
> > Is it really needed to change the artwork? If the author is
> > responding to Romains comment, we may ask him if we can use the
> > image anyway.
> >
> > Thorsten
> 
> We are using a modified image... and following comments on this web
> site it just says that this modified image is ugly. The best we could
> do is at least use the original one
> 
> 

And it isn't Open Source.  But I love it, all the same.

Doug.