[pmwiki-users] Patrick: Is the PmWiki header picture GPL'd?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Dec 4 09:38:26 CST 2011


On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 01:53:29AM +0100, Petko Yotov wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> The PmWiki logo on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion. Wikipedia more and 
> more tends to accept images under a Free license such as CC-BY-SA, GNU FDL or 
> GNU GPL. 
> 
> Can we assume that this file pmwiki-32.gif, which is included in the core 
> PmWiki distribution, is also covered by the GNU GPL?
>   http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/pub/skins/pmwiki/pmwiki-32.gif

Yes.

> Moreover, this SVG file is probably a derivative version of the pmwiki-32.gif:
> 
>   http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki/pub/skins/boira/images/pmwiki.svg
> 
> The file is part of the Boira skin [1], created by Carles Escrig i Royo and 
> released under the CC-BY-SA license. As a copyright holder of the original 
> picture, can you grant a permission for this derivative work to be released 
> under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License ?
> 
>   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Granted.

Pm



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