Bug 370490

Summary:	Copyright violation in sddm theme
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	markuss <kamikazow>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	kde, plasma-bugs, subdiff
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/647e254d34d4664754a21985a89998edeee911f3	Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Free replacement sddm thumbnail with Kant

Description markuss 2016-10-11 18:09:10 UTC

sddm-theme/face1.jpeg (sddm-theme/breeze.jpg in turn includes a thumbnail of that) is a copyrighted photo of that guy: http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Ted_Mosby

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Remove it ASAP

Comment 1 Roman Gilg 2016-10-12 10:09:06 UTC

It's still a part of this file:
sddm-theme/breeze.jpg

Comment 2 markuss 2016-10-12 11:05:02 UTC

Created attachment 101542 [details]
Free replacement

Here's a replacement with this guy: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giorgis.jpg

That photo is freely licensed, incl CC and LGPL, just include the attribution somewhere (like the commit message).

PS: Next time use PNG for the preview image. An image that's mostly a flat color compresses better that way.

Comment 3 Roman Gilg 2016-10-15 09:47:31 UTC

Created attachment 101570 [details]
sddm thumbnail with Kant

Thanks, but I would prefer a professional shot of a photo model (male or female doesn't matter) or some image, which is not of a random living specific person not related to the KDE project.

I made a version from a painting presumably depicting Kant (because you know, Kant is kool): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kant_Portrait.jpg

I don't know if it's a problem, that it's only in the "Public domain" and not CC/LGPL, but I think it's probably a fair bet, since the original painting has lost its copyright and the image of the painting will be only part of a way larger image of our login screen.

But if you have doubts, maybe you can find another historic painting under CC/LGPL. As long as it's not a controversial historic person, looking like we want to make a political statement, I would still strongly prefer it to a random living person not related to modelling. Or if you find a professional model shot under CC/LGPL, we can also use this.

Comment 4 David Edmundson 2016-10-16 09:27:04 UTC

Thanks, but I've replaced it to use the icons we have in user accounts, that has even less problems then as the source is obvious.

Also I've cleared up the test data supplied, the idea of the test data is to be deliberately "broken". There's someone with a name that elides, and someone without a real name set. If we're gonna fix it we may as well do it neatly too.

Comment 5 David Edmundson 2016-10-16 09:29:42 UTC

Git commit 647e254d34d4664754a21985a89998edeee911f3 by David Edmundson.
Committed on 16/10/2016 at 09:27.
Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'Plasma/5.8'.

Update SDDM theme preview

The old one looked rubbish as it was using deliberately test data, and
the assets used were unclear.

D  +-    --    sddm-theme/breeze.jpg
M  +1    -1    sddm-theme/metadata.desktop
A  +-    --    sddm-theme/preview.png

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/647e254d34d4664754a21985a89998edeee911f3