Hello peeps,
We want to announce a potentially confusing change we will be adding to tzigla in the next days. A license!
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
This is the same thing that
wikipedia uses, and also lots of
people on flickr choose to use.
The main goal of the license is to make sure proper attribution is given to the artists, and to tzigla, when people post a picture of the whole board or tile. It also allows anyone to take the tiles and make a better visualization or form of art with them and makes sure the tiles are not "locked" into tzigla.
Here are some reasons why we're adding this license and what we want people to do with it:
* if someone posts a picture to their blog, we want them to put a link back to the board or tile
* with or without a license, people will make a screenshot of the board, and try to sell posters (this happened to the tiles.ice.org boards)
* people will do this anyway, but if we have a clear and simple license, they will at least put a link back to the board on tzigla
* we love to work on tzigla, and we want people not to take advantage of our work
* we want to encourage others to create even nicer things from the boards in tzigla. some examples:
* nicer visualizations of a board being revealed (we have a play button, but a person with video editing skills could make a much better one)
* calculations and computations based on the tiles. concrete examples: number of colors used, percent of red in a board, average number of attempts for a tile, etc
We hope you agree with us and we'd love to hear any opinions or advice regarding this.
Thanks!
