User talk:Drludos

Hi Dr Ludos.

The image in question is already available for use freely, even commercially, as it is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence (aka CC BY-SA 3.0), with the caveat that doing so means you must also release under said licence (from the licence document: "If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original."). I am no legal expert and honestly don't know whether this applies to the whole piece of software or simply the image. It is also available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Not being a legal expert I am reluctant to release any further rights (as I don't know what the potential ramifications would be). However, if CC BY-SA 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation License are incompatible with what you are doing I suggest you give Evan-Amos's images a look (in this case Nintendo-Super-Famicom-Set-FL.png). He has taken a huge number of excellent photos of retro consoles and released them into the public domain, which can therefore be used legally for any purpose, commercial or otherwise. (Of course it would be nice to credit him anyway, but there is no legal obligation to do so, at least to my knowledge.) Personally I think it is a better photo anyway.

If it is compatible and you still wish to use the image then the format of the credit is somewhat dictated by the CC licence (from the CC BY-SA 3.0 deed: "... 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. CC licenses prior to Version 4.0 also require you to provide the title of the material if supplied, and may have other slight differences.").

P.S. I replied to your message here as I'd rather not give out my email address. Please feel free to respond however you see fit.

P.P.S. My user name is Alphathon. (Don't worry, I'm not offended or anything and you're far form the first person to make that mistake (I wish I knew why it keeps happening), I just thought I'd clear it up.)

 Alphathon  /'æɫ.fə.θɒn/ ( talk ) 17:09, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Dear Alphathon,

Thanks a lot for your reply. After further research, it appears that it's possible to create a work released in a non-CC license that include a CC-BY-SA licensed work such as yours. Indeed, the CC-SA license makes a distinction between a "Derivative Work" and a "Collective work".

As written on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/legalcode :

"Collective Work" means a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology or encyclopedia, in which the Work in its entirety in unmodified form, along with one or more other contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole. A work that constitutes a Collective Work will not be considered a Derivative Work (as defined below) for the purposes of this License.

"Derivative Work" means a work based upon the Work or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted, except that a work that constitutes a Collective Work will not be considered a Derivative Work for the purpose of this License. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Work is a musical composition or sound recording, the synchronization of the Work in timed-relation with a moving image ("synching") will be considered a Derivative Work for the purpose of this License.

In my case, I'm clearly creating a "Collective Work", which will use your image in its entirety and in an unmodified form. So, it seems that it can be released in a non CC-BY-SA license while including your beautiful Super Famicom picture.

Thanks a lot for your time and your help,

Best Regards, Drludos (talk) 17:56, 28 August 2016 (UTC) Dr. Ludos
 * That's good to know.


 * I wish you all the best with your project, and feel I should probably thank you for checking in the first place (so many people just don't bother).  Alphathon  /'æɫ.fə.θɒn/ ( talk ) 20:17, 28 August 2016 (UTC)