- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:03:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, David Woolley wrote: It is difficult or impossible to put things into the public domain, at least for copyright. In the UK you need to wait for 70 years after the author's death. The nearest you can get is an explicit licence that grants permission to do anything. I think that is not so. It can be done with an explicit statement by the holder of the copyright (normally whoever created the thing). For example the original work Tim Berners-Lee did on HTML and HTTP was explicitly released into the public domain by CERN (holders of the copyright as his employer at the time - a standard work condition in many places). Anyway, you can check the licenses of an open source product and see what it says about images etc taht are part of the content... Amaya might be a good place to start. It has some of the relevant things, and the copyright requirement is that you acknowledge the source, but as far as I understand it that is all - you can do what you like in terms of redistributing it. (There are copyright statements linked from the Amaya pages). http://www.w3.org/Amaya chaals Copyright may not be the issue, but rather design protection. Clean icons are so simple that it is difficult to avoid reproducing the same image without copying. -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
Received on Tuesday, 22 January 2002 07:04:12 UTC