Re: How to archive photos?

[Allan Day <aday gnome org>]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de> wrote:
...
> On Di, 2016-05-17 at 17:53 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> > Often photos won't be published online under a free licence, but will
> > be provided to us directly.
> Like how?

The most common cases are when the photos are published online but
without a licence. This might be because the platform doesn't support
free licensing (eg. G+, Facebook), or simply because the photo author
doesn't usually use free licensing. Typically I find the photos and
approach the author, and generally they're happy to let us use them
under a licence. In this situation it seems a bit much to ask them to
publish them somewhere with the correct licensing.

I have had other cases where photos have been provided to me directly.
Say at GUADEC I might ask someone to email me the group photo to post
on gnome.org. People have also given me photos at events physically
with an SD card, or through some kind of file transfer.

> An in-line mechanism might be much easier to implement and maintain as
> opposed to something out-of-band like posting to a mailing-list.
>
> If its email, then you could make the sender include a statement.
...

That's true - I've done a bit of research and it seems that it doesn't
have to be a public statement, as long as we have a record of the
photo creator giving consent. This means that the consent could be a
private email that we save alongside the image.

> If it's bound to some authentication mechanism, you may be able to make
> the sender accept that the photos may be used by the GNOME Foundation.

What sort of mechanism would that be?

Allan