Hi All,
A general question to the mailing list. We are working in a rural area and
some of our enumerators are barely literate. We want to use graphics /
icons to enhance the usability of our surveys. I have been searching around
and there are a number of free icons / graphics that we can use, however,
some are licensed under the creative commons license which requires
attribution. This is easily done if one is using the icons for a blog post
or on your company's website, however it becomes a little more fuzzy when
using the icons / graphics as part of a survey.
- Is it really necessary to attribute / acknowledge use in the survey?
- If yes to 1, then how does one go about it?
Many thanks in advance for your time and inputs,
Wesley
Someone put effort into creating the graphics, presumably in the hopes of
obtaining follow-on business.
If you fail to attribute their work, you break their business model and
will then have to pay even more to find and produce custom graphics when
you need them.
As a matter of form and courtesy, you should supply attributions for the
graphics.
···
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And, legally, these licenses *require* attribution.
A possible way to do this is to have a LICENSE.txt file in your media
folder, and place all the URLs / attributions, and license terms for those
images in that file. You would upload and distribute that LICENSE.txt to
your server and devices alongside the graphics/icons (don't worry about
space -- the images consume far more space than any license file ever
could).
Then, within your form, add a field-list of Note fields, perhaps as the
very last page of your survey, citing the graphics and referring interested
users to the LICENSE.txt in the media folder.
JAR files often have a LICENSE.txt embedded in them for similar purposes.
And apps using CC icons generally provide a brief citation on their About
screens, perhaps referencing that LICENSE.txt to fully satisfy the legal
requirements of attribution.
Finally, I am not a lawyer; I provide this suggestion "AS-IS"; I and my
employer provide no warranty and assume no liability if this does not
satisfy the requirements of the creative commons license.
Mitch
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Wes Roberts jwesroberts@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
A general question to the mailing list. We are working in a rural area and
some of our enumerators are barely literate. We want to use graphics /
icons to enhance the usability of our surveys. I have been searching around
and there are a number of free icons / graphics that we can use, however,
some are licensed under the creative commons license which requires
attribution. This is easily done if one is using the icons for a blog post
or on your company's website, however it becomes a little more fuzzy when
using the icons / graphics as part of a survey.
- Is it really necessary to attribute / acknowledge use in the survey?
- If yes to 1, then how does one go about it?
Many thanks in advance for your time and inputs,
Wesley
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Many thanks Mitch.
Will make the necessary changes and source the links and or license
attributions.
Does the same hold true for photographs? We have a number of pics of
animals that we want to use as well.
Regards,
Wesley
···
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:57:35 UTC+2, Mitch Sundt wrote:
>
> Someone put effort into creating the graphics, presumably in the hopes of
> obtaining follow-on business.
>
> If you fail to attribute their work, you break their business model and
> will then have to pay even more to find and produce custom graphics when
> you need them.
>
> As a matter of form and courtesy, you should supply attributions for the
> graphics.
> ---
> And, legally, these licenses *require* attribution.
>
> A possible way to do this is to have a LICENSE.txt file in your media
> folder, and place all the URLs / attributions, and license terms for those
> images in that file. You would upload and distribute that LICENSE.txt to
> your server and devices alongside the graphics/icons (don't worry about
> space -- the images consume far more space than any license file ever
> could).
>
> Then, within your form, add a field-list of Note fields, perhaps as the
> very last page of your survey, citing the graphics and referring interested
> users to the LICENSE.txt in the media folder.
>
> JAR files often have a LICENSE.txt embedded in them for similar purposes.
> And apps using CC icons generally provide a brief citation on their About
> screens, perhaps referencing that LICENSE.txt to fully satisfy the legal
> requirements of attribution.
>
> Finally, I am not a lawyer; I provide this suggestion "AS-IS"; I and my
> employer provide no warranty and assume no liability if this does not
> satisfy the requirements of the creative commons license.
>
> ---
> Mitch
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Wes Roberts <jwesr...@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A general question to the mailing list. We are working in a rural area
>> and some of our enumerators are barely literate. We want to use graphics /
>> icons to enhance the usability of our surveys. I have been searching around
>> and there are a number of free icons / graphics that we can use, however,
>> some are licensed under the creative commons license which requires
>> attribution. This is easily done if one is using the icons for a blog post
>> or on your company's website, however it becomes a little more fuzzy when
>> using the icons / graphics as part of a survey.
>>
>> 1. Is it really necessary to attribute / acknowledge use in the survey?
>> 2. If yes to 1, then how does one go about it?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for your time and inputs,
>>
>> Wesley
>>
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>
It all depends upon the license and usage conditions of the photos.
I was just responding with how I would handle Creative Commons imagery.
···
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Wes Roberts wrote:
Many thanks Mitch.
Will make the necessary changes and source the links and or license
attributions.
Does the same hold true for photographs? We have a number of pics of
animals that we want to use as well.
Regards,
Wesley
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:57:35 UTC+2, Mitch Sundt wrote:
Someone put effort into creating the graphics, presumably in the hopes of
obtaining follow-on business.
If you fail to attribute their work, you break their business model and
will then have to pay even more to find and produce custom graphics when
you need them.
As a matter of form and courtesy, you should supply attributions for the
graphics.
And, legally, these licenses require attribution.
A possible way to do this is to have a LICENSE.txt file in your media
folder, and place all the URLs / attributions, and license terms for those
images in that file. You would upload and distribute that LICENSE.txt to
your server and devices alongside the graphics/icons (don't worry about
space -- the images consume far more space than any license file ever
could).
Then, within your form, add a field-list of Note fields, perhaps as the
very last page of your survey, citing the graphics and referring interested
users to the LICENSE.txt in the media folder.
JAR files often have a LICENSE.txt embedded in them for similar purposes.
And apps using CC icons generally provide a brief citation on their About
screens, perhaps referencing that LICENSE.txt to fully satisfy the legal
requirements of attribution.
Finally, I am not a lawyer; I provide this suggestion "AS-IS"; I and my
employer provide no warranty and assume no liability if this does not
satisfy the requirements of the creative commons license.
Mitch
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Wes Roberts jwesr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
A general question to the mailing list. We are working in a rural area
and some of our enumerators are barely literate. We want to use graphics /
icons to enhance the usability of our surveys. I have been searching around
and there are a number of free icons / graphics that we can use, however,
some are licensed under the creative commons license which requires
attribution. This is easily done if one is using the icons for a blog post
or on your company's website, however it becomes a little more fuzzy when
using the icons / graphics as part of a survey.
- Is it really necessary to attribute / acknowledge use in the survey?
- If yes to 1, then how does one go about it?
Many thanks in advance for your time and inputs,
Wesley
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