What is the license for the graphics and artwork?

[rl2939]

What is the license for the graphics and artwork? (This is everything under the res directory.) Is this the under the same license as the software license, under a Creative Commons type license such as CC BY-SA, or something else?

[scanner-darkly]

i haven't given this any consideration, and from a quick look it looks like i'll need to do some research.

i'm okay with the images being used in commercial or non commercial applications with proper attribution. what do other plugin authors typically use for this kind of scenario?

[dromer]

Many Rack modules don't specify and then one would say that these resources fall under the same license as the source-code.

In your case that would be "GPL-3.0-or-later".

It is certainly not required to have a specific license just for the resources.
Only when you want to restrict their specific use.

[scanner-darkly]

thanks! does that work for cardinal or does it require images to use a different licence?

[dromer]

@scanner-darkly not at all. We have a bunch of modules that don't specify artwork license and then it is assumed that the entire project falls under the source license.

See: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/blob/main/docs/LICENSES.md#artwork--panel-licenses

We simply asked @rl2939 to note this down in the LICENSES.md file, but I think they misunderstood.

[rl2939]

thanks! does that work for cardinal or does it require images to use a different licence?

No, the images do not need to be a different license.

We simply asked @rl2939 to note this down in the LICENSES.md file, but I think they misunderstood.

Oh, oops. I misread the comment as "the plugin here does not have an artwork license, please ask for the artwork license info".

Should I close the ticket?