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Publicly released files and assets of Penpot, The Open-Source design & prototyping platform
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How to give credit? #1

Open 12people opened 2 years ago

12people commented 2 years ago

This repo shows CC BY 4.0 as the license, which I assume applies to all included projects, but:

  1. there's no mention of this license on the official library site
  2. it's unclear how to give credit as per the CC BY 4.0 requirements

It'd be good to add some simple licensing info both here and on the official library site.

niwinz commented 2 years ago

Hi @12people

You are right, we need to mention the license on the official library site. We will fix it soon.

About the point 2 (my personal opinion):

Also, the CC BY is for .penpot files and original penpot content (of the files). Some files has content that is already licensed by other licenses (https://cocomaterial.com/license). If you are using original content (components, icons, etc... made by penpot) then these assets are subject to CC BY, but if you are using cocomaterial penpot file and you are just using cocomaterial assets, then you are subject to the cocomaterial licence in case you want to deliver your work to some else.

12people commented 2 years ago

Hi @niwinz,

Thanks!

In the future, it'd be nice to have these attributions within the metadata of the Penpot file and shown in the Penpot UI. (Figma does something like this, albeit to a limited degree.)

As for the CocoMaterial's license, it turns out that its license is incompatible with CC BY 4.0, so legally the Penpot file can't be licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license. I reported a separate issue just for that: #3

niwinz commented 2 years ago

Good idea (the metadata). We will consider include a solution for it in a future.