On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:36:46PM +0000, Rob Church wrote:
Anyway, I believe the original question was relating
to the licencing
status of MediaWiki screenshots, no?
No, actually. At least when I arrived, it was "posting screenshots to
Commons", which is, obviously, a larger topic.
I'm of the opinion that distributing a simple,
cropped screenshot of
the MediaWiki interface, taken in a common browser such as Firefox is
unlikely to upset anyone. I have, personally, absolutely no problem
with anyone taking pictures of any of the forms I've put *so much*
creative thought and expression into[1] because it's all a matter of
making our software easier to understand through documentation.
*Unfortunately*, there's this horrible and stupid bloody viral GPL
crap in the way of all that, and I expect there's some cretin who
won't agree with my line of thinking, above. So I guess we're back to
square one.
[1] Obviously, MakeBot encapsulates the emo in me.
Well, yeah... *if* the copyright on code extends to the visual
representation of that code on a screen, given a particular OS, theme
package, and possibly browser... which is the current topic on point as
I've been arguing it.
Cheers,
-- jra
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