UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

Re:UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you ... by theknarf on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:23AM (#17714266)

Why are they MIT licensed? That's a weird license to use for art assets. Why not Creative Commons?

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Re:UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you ... by lucideer on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:27AM (#17715297)

CC got rid of their non-attribution v1.0 licences in 2004, so since then there has been three options for people wanting to release art without requiring attribution:

- CC-By but include an extra note allowing people to omit attribution. This is hassle and may not be legally ok.

- CC0. This comes with other affordances you may not want

- Use some slightly inappropriate code licence like MIT

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Re:UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you ... by gioele on Saturday August 11, 2018 @03:15AM (#17738717)

> CC got rid of their non-attribution v1.0 licences in 2004, so since then there has been three options for people wanting to release art without requiring attribution:

But MIT requires attribution as well:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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Re:UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you ... by lucideer on Saturday August 11, 2018 @06:23AM (#17739130)

IANAL but my understanding is that the legal interpretation of that is that the copyright and permission notice doesn't (need to) include the name of the copyright holder.

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Re:UnDraw: MIT licensed illustrations for every project you ... by anges244 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @10:11AM (#17716101)

SVG's are practically code and can be easily copy-pasted so MIT is a pretty much suitable choice...

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