diff --git a/Scripts/Bash/Cli/Functions/cli_getCopyrightInfo.sh b/Scripts/Bash/Cli/Functions/cli_getCopyrightInfo.sh index 8b7a367..b376890 100755 --- a/Scripts/Bash/Cli/Functions/cli_getCopyrightInfo.sh +++ b/Scripts/Bash/Cli/Functions/cli_getCopyrightInfo.sh @@ -1,105 +1,18 @@ #!/bin/bash # -# cli_getCopyrightInfo.sh -- This function outputs copyright -# information defined by design model the artistic motif images are -# produced from. As convenction, we use the file `copyright.txt' to -# store design model copyright information, in the root directory of -# design model directory structure. +# cli_getCopyrightInfo.sh -- This function outputs the copyright +# information of content produced by the centos-art command-line +# interface. # -# The copyright information is printed to show the fact that the -# person how creates something has the creation rights over that -# something he/she creates. An so, the legal power to release his/her -# creation under the ethical terms of whatever license he/she -# considers more appropriate, in order to distribute his/her creation. +# As I understand, the copyright exists to make people create more. +# The copyright gives creators the legal power over their creations +# and so the freedom to distribute them under the ethical terms the +# creator considers better. # -# Inside CentOS Artwork Repository, we print copyright information in -# the following image-related components: -# -# 1. The artistic motifs, to define the visual style of themes. -# -# The copyright information of artistic motifs is owned by the -# person who creates the artistic motif (i.e., the artistic motif -# author). The copyright information of artistic motifs is -# specified in the `authors.txt' file placed inside the artistic -# motif directory structure. The copyright information of -# artistic motifs is printed in imagesunder -# trunk/Identity/Themes/Motifs/$THEME/Concept directory structure -# only. -# -# 2. The design models, to define the characteristics of themes. -# -# The copyright information of design models is owned by the -# person who creates the design model (i.e., the design model -# author). The copyright information of design models is -# specified in the metadata of each scalable vector graphic that -# make a design model on its own. The copyright information of -# design models is not printed in images. -# -# 3. The CentOS themes, to cover each visual manifestation of The -# CentOS Project corporate visual identity. A CentOS theme is -# made of many different images connected among themselves by -# mean of a uniform visual pattern (artistic motif + design -# model). -# -# The copyright information of CentOS themes is owned by The -# CentOS Project. Instead of printing the copyright information -# over all images inside one CentOS theme, the copyright -# information of CentOS themes is printed only on images related -# to Anaconda progress first slides. -# -# The copyright information printed on Anaconda progress first -# slides is used to print the creation rights of The CentOS -# Project over its creation (i.e., The CentOS Distribution) not -# The CentOS Theme itself. -# -# At this point, we've defined who owns the creation rights of image -# components. Now, it is important to remark that if we need to show -# one creation copyright, in different places, all references to the -# same cration copyright information should be the same. Cannot be any -# ambiguity among them. The best way to reach this is having just one -# unique definition, and build images using that unique copyright -# definition as reference. -# -# Another relevant point, we need to be aware of, is that related to -# the licenses. As creators has the creation rights, they have the -# right to distribute their work as their consideration. If creators -# release their creations under the terms of a privatizing license, -# that creation will be almost useless for The CentOS Community. So, -# in order for creations to be useful in The CentOS Community, -# creators should distribution their creations under the terms of a -# license that grants the freedom of using, studying, changing and -# releasing improved versions of them. Likewise, the license should -# prevent any privatizing practice or any kind of darkness that put in -# risk the freedom of The CentOS Community. -# -# What license should be used to distribute images (and the components -# used to build them) is a decision for The CentOS Community to take. -# The license adopted, by The CentOS Community, specifies the ethical -# terms The CentOS Community is agree to work with. It is a reference -# we all have to agree with and follow in the sake of our community -# and ourselves freedom. That's why license selection has to be a -# collective decision, and also be constantly in question. -# -# I'm not a lawyer. So, I can't give details of something I don't know -# certainly. All I've done so far is using my intuition and basic -# understanding of what copyright and license is. So, if you have a -# deeper understanding and experience in such legal topics, please -# feel free to make your own revisions to ideas described here. -# -# In the sake of covering copyright information and license needs -# inside centos-art.sh script, all images produced by `centos-art.sh' -# script will be released using the copyright information of his/her -# creator (see above) and the license Creative Common -# Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License -# (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). -# -# The Creative Common Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License has been -# adopted in The CentOS Wiki (http://wiki.centos.org/) and seems to be -# good as well to distribute image-specific creations under CentOS -# Artwork Repository. Of course, as licenses are always questionable, -# the one we've choosed could be changed in the future after a -# collective discussion in the CentOS mailing list, in order to better -# reflect the ethical feelings of our community. +# At this moment I don't feel very sure about this legal affairs, but +# need to decide what copyright information the centos-art will +# output. So, I'm taking the wiki (wiki.centos.org) copyright +# information as reference. # # Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Alain Reguera Delgado #