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The Golang Gopher is a design of Renee French, and the lack of attribution here is disappointing. Wouldn't these derivative works also be covered by her copyrig
by bgentry 11y ago
The Golang Gopher is a design of Renee French, and the lack of attribution here is disappointing. Wouldn't these derivative works also be covered by her copyright?
https://blog.golang.org/gopher https://blog.golang.org/gopher
- jerf 11y agoThe original Gopher is licensed under the Creative Commons 3 Attribution license: https://golang.org/doc/gopher/README https://golang.org/doc/gopher/README While technically you could license your own stuff under the WTFPL, these gopher images are still CC BY 3.0 underneath that.
- arihant 11y agoI think in CC BY 3.0, as long as proper attribution is given, license of derivative works can be changed. Licensor cannot revoke adaptation rights, as long as attribution is given, even for commercial use. So the use of WTFPL is fine here, but the lack of attribution renders CC BY 3.0 non-applicable, and hence makes this repo a copyright infringement.
- jerf 11y agoThat's pretty much what I was trying to say... you can decline to add more license to your own work, and decline to ask for your own attribution, but you can't erase the underlying license and WTFPL the whole thing, as the only license.
- magnusgraviti 11y agoWe have already added licensing. Now it must be ok.
- arihant 11y agoGood that you took action. But it is still not compliant. You must link to original work by Renee. You need include link to her blog, where she posted the design. See here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > If supplied, you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material. For reference, here is how official Golang README puts it: > The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. (http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/ http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/)
- sbt 11y agoThe lack of attribution here is refreshing. I am sick of living in a world where all ideas have to be meticulously accounted for.
- arihant 11y agoIt is also against the spirit of CC, and also against CC BY 3.0, which Gopher is licensed under. If you don't like attributing, do not use things licensed under CC. It's that simple.