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  • Started 5 years ago by Dylan Knight Rogers
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  1. First of all, I must say that I am happy to be here. Secondly, I am doubly happy that those who wish to submit their work can do so under the GNU General Public License. I just have a few notes that should be considered on the clarification of the licenses: 1. When licensing under the GNU GPL, it must be noted as to how you wish to license the work. (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html). It must also be specified as to how flexible the GPL will be. For example, "GPLv2 or later," or "GPLv2 only," etc. Saying "GNU GPL" is somewhat irrelevant, if you wish to be specific. 2. There is no such thing as the "Creative Commons license". Creative Commons is an organization that provides easily applicable copyright licenses to authors. There are several types of Creative Commons licenses, and that needs to be clarified as to which one OpenDesigns.org is going to use. I am basing these conclusions by simply looking at the design search page. Good luck to the administrators! Looks good, thus far. Just a couple licensing rough spots.
    Posted 5 years ago #
  2. Sean
    Founding Member

    Dylan, we have links to each license on the help page with brief descriptions of each and if people need detailed clarification, they can get it from the source of each license by checking out the links. We are not going to have a licensing debate on the forum. Too many factors can effect a license and/or designs, so we leave it up to the designer and user to make the right choices after they read the details from each license. We can not police everything and keep everyone happy, so both users and designers need to work together and keep the peace in regards to licensing.
    Posted 5 years ago #
  3. Very well.
    Posted 5 years ago #

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