Bug#800878: inkscape: non-free file "gallardo.svgz"

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2015-10-04 17:56:11)
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:52:49AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
>> According to its metadata, image "/usr/share/inkscape/examples/gallardo.svgz" 
>> appears to be non-free:
>> 
>>     WorkLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
>>     LicenseProhibits: http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse
>>     WorkDescription: A traced Lamborghini Gallardo.
>>     The source image can be found at:
>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lamborghini_Gallardo_silver.jpg
>
>
> It's funny because according to that wikipedia page the image under a
> double license GFDL-1.2 / CC-BY-SA-3.0.

Indeed, that's interesting.

We could try locate and get in touch with the copyright holder of the 
SVG, and ask kindly if he agrees to relicense, also making him aware 
that arguably¹ he has no choice.

According to metadata of the file, his name is Michael Grosberg and he 
used Windows² at the time.  A Michael Grosberg have been active on the 
Inkscape developers' list, so maybe his email is in some commit message 
or his list posts hare unscrambled somewhere...

Anyone who wants to try contact Michael?


 - Jonas

¹ but not for us to judge - if he disagrees with our opinion then next 
step is not shout but just kindly inform the copyright holder of the 
original photograph about the potential licensing breakage.

² Filename is C:\Documents and Settings\MichaelG\My Documents\My Pictures\gallardo.png

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