[Tux4kids-discuss] publication permission

[David Bruce]

Personally, I think it is fine.  I have been the primary maintainer of
tuxmath and tuxtype for most of the last few years, but I'm not the sole
copyright holder of the code and artwork.  IANAL, but my understanding is
that copyright law allows brief quotes and screenshots to be used for
review and journalistic purposes even for completely proprietary products.
You could completely cover the issue by saying that the programs are
covered by the GPL (v2+ for tuxpaint, v3+ for tuxmath and tuxtype) and
including the text of the licenses.  However, I personally think that would
be overkill just for screenshots.

Regards

David Bruce
On Aug 3, 2013 7:49 PM, "Jonathan McDowell" <noodles at earth.li> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:56:52AM -0400, Christopher Whittum wrote:
> > Hello.  I am writing a book on educational open source software.  In
> > this book, I discuss Tux Math, Tux Paint and Tux Typing.  I include
> > screen shots of each of these programs to accompany the
> > corresponding articles.  As these applications are maintained by
> > Debian Linux, I would like to ask your permission to use these
> > screen shots.
> >
> > Thank you for your time.
>
> I don't see that you ever got a reply to this. I can't see that there
> would be an issue with including screenshots of these applications in
> your book, but I have copied the tux4kids mailing list as that should
> reach the people actually involved in those applications.
>
> J.
>
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