Using some of the featured images on new Krita application welcome screen

[Grum999]

@AhabGreybeard

The points I made were in response to your earlier reply:

@Grum999

A BY-CC-ND or BY-CC-NC might not be Ok for what is asked here:

• Krita is sell on store, then BY-CC-NC can’t be used
• Krita probably modify artwork to put it in gallery (crop/resize), then BY-CC-ND can’t be used

I was saying that it shouldn’t be a problem because the creator can enter into a separate license agreement with another individual person/organisation to bypassd the -BY, -NC or -ND that was stated in the initial CC publishing.
The initial release of -BY-NC-ND still applies to everyone else.

The CC license should not be a limitation on the creator to do what they want with their work.

Yes sorry, when I wrote that, I didn’t keep in mind that author will be contacted for agreement
But these both licenses might need explicit agreement for what Krita want to do.
Without an explicit agreement, only CC-BY can be used.

Grum999

[Deevad]

@Grum999

Without an explicit agreement, only CC-BY can be used.

+1 I think that sums it all up.

CC-By-Sa (share alike) is also safe for that.

Maybe the best is: when an artwork has the tag featured, having a moderator asking in the thread for the agreement. If the owner of the art agrees, a special tag can be attributed. This way, you keep a trace of the agreement publicly, and the tag helps to auto-display and link the art on the welcome screen of Krita.

[raghukamath]

Another issue is how thumbnails work in discourse a user can set thumbnail later too. So it is prone to mischief. When a artwork is selected and is shown on krita welcome screen, the user can change the thumbnail by editing post, it will be embarassing to have it cause issue to the app and depending on the image it can lead to legal issue with store version. The more I think about this the more I am convinced that the images should be hand picked and curated. Even if it means just saving the image and uploading on different server.

[Deevad]

@raghukamath

So it is prone to mischief.

Good point. Maybe the art should be just manually uploaded on a KDE server directory (eg. via sFTP), or K-A will get very intensive traffic serving all these pictures directly. This way, you know what’s in the server’s directory and can control it.

[raghukamath]

Yeah hosting it on another server was already planned since krita will be opened millions of times, it would put a load on ka. We thought of fetching images periodically in automated way but i think that is not necessary considering the risk