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LoCo Derivitive Works

I’ve just been looking through Spread Ubuntu, that bastion of advertising media for Ubuntu LoCo teams which allows us to share designs and such.

I noticed something which made me smile, a long time ago I made a poster for the Massachusetts 8.10 party and it was commissioned from Mimloy a Thai artist from deviantArt. She kindly made it and released it under CC-BY-SA for me. So I made modifications and did my editing and produced this. (see left)

So checking art I was glad to see this work by Leogg, a Spanish Ubuntu person who designed/released some great Ubuntu CD covers for 9.10 (1 year later) and some of them clearly show a derivative of the original Ubuntu girl from the above poster. Changed, made better, made to fit, given a body and split into a number of personalities.

Isn’t it great? Score another point for creative commons freedom. Now on an interesting note technically each derivative work should attribute all the people who’ve worked on it so far, but that’s actually hard to do because you may not know everyone who did (I doubt leogg knew Mimloy was the original artist) and it could ruin the artwork to have a million names printed on it each time. I’ve not yet come up with a good answer for how to solve these problems.

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  1. Tom says:
    2010-02-18 at 03:49

    Very nice, but the colored person for Xubuntu is a stereotyping it a bit.
    There are colored people with high spec gaming riggs. They don’t have to run Xubuntu, they can run the real thing.

  2. Martin Owens says:
    2010-02-18 at 04:28

    You should post that comment to the artist, me I felt the same way, but I assume innocents on the part of the artist.

  3. Cypher says:
    2010-02-18 at 06:38

    At first sight, I thought : “That kubuntu guy looks so out of place…” but now I think it might simply state that Kubuntu is directed towards a more professional audience. I like it actually, KDE is clearly more suited to business than GNOME.

  4. Peter says:
    2010-02-18 at 08:32

    LOL @ portraying Kubuntu as a blue-headed step child

  5. leogg says:
    2010-02-18 at 11:45

    Hi, Martin!

    I was really looking for the original author of this one! There was no info on the source files I got. Can you please give me more info on Mimloy (her website?) so I can credit her?

    Answering your question… Yes! We should always credit the original author, no matter how complicated it might be (such as putting a million names on the artwork). I always include a textfile with the copyright info in my source files, and I think it’s our job as artists to make it easier for other people to make derivative works of our art, and that includes providing the source files with clear and simple copyright notes – license, name of the author(s) and website(s), etc.

    Cheers,

  6. leogg says:
    2010-02-18 at 11:52

    @Tom:
    I don’t really understand what you mean? Did you say that Xubuntu is a ’second class OS’?

    I really love Xfce and Xubuntu, my daughter’s PC used to run Xubuntu and I’ve used it for some time. Xubuntu _is_ the real thing!!

    I think It’s quite racist from your part to imply that Xubuntu is bad just because it’s represented by a non-WASP cartoon.

  7. Martin Owens says:
    2010-02-18 at 15:54

    Hey:

    http://mimoly.deviantart.com/

    There you go.

  8. leogg says:
    2010-02-18 at 18:30

    Thanks! I’ll include that on the license file and upload the whole thing back again to SU this weekend.