I looked around for some indication of the copyright status of BOINCstats images, but couldn't find anything. Does anyone know what license, if any, the graphs, charts etc. are under?

The reason I ask is that I've been working to improve the Rosetta@home Wikipedia article, and would like to include some high-level graphs in a section I plan on writing this week. Considering that graphs on this site give important information for all BOINC projects, every BOINC project page on Wikipedia could be improved with these images incorporated into their respective articles. Unfortunately, administrators at Wikipedia are strict about having licensing information for every image, and will removed images without it.

If images from BOINCstats were licensed under a free license, like GFDL and/or (better yet) Creative Commons, then they could be uploaded and used on the various Wikipedia articles on BOINCstats, or anywhere else, provided they cite Willy de Zutter and are used for non-commercial purposes. Would it be possible to place BOINCstats images under a Creative Commons license? It would be as simple as adding a short copyright notice somewhere on each page (e.g. 'Licensed under Creative Commons' with a link to a small page describing the license (something to the effect of one of the Commons Deeds shown here).

Check at the bottom of this (and all other) page(s).

I'll make a page on BS itself where I will exclude the "For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work." and "as long as they mention you and link back to you" parts for signatures for use on other websites.

While finally going to upload a Credit per Day graphic (this one) on Wikipedia, I noticed that Wikipedia doesn't allow use of any images under the current license on BOINCstats (Creative Commons by-nc-nd). The reason is that this license is considered a non-free license (see Wikipedia: Non-free Creative Commons licenses).

I suppose I could possibly find other BOINC statistics sites under free licenses, but I'd like to use BOINCstats's images on various BOINC-related Wikipedia articles because I think they're the best analyses available. Would you (Willy) be willing to put BOINCstats images under a free license, like GFDL or Creative Commons by/by-sa? If so, there's a list of available free licenses at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags/Free_licenses.

If not, then there maybe we can figure something else out?

I'll have a look. I thought the current license allowed for using the images for free when unchanged

The reason I didn't use the more open license was because (I think) it also legally allows scraping. And that I don't want.

Well, I have a problem with the more open license. I have no problem putting the images under the cc-by-sa license, but this license is to open for the rest of BOINCstats. I explicitly do not want to give permission to use the text (data) on the pages. I have had to many problems with scrapers in the past and this would give them legal permission to do just that.

So, a question I have not found answered so far: can I either have the license limited to the images or can I have a separate license for the pages themselves.

The first option would read something like:
Statistics images on BOINCstats are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Netherlands License.

Any advise, ideas?

I sent the question on how to put images (but not text) under the by-sa license to the help desk at Wikimedia Commons.

On first glance, it seems like the wording you put forward in your previous post (Statistics images on BOINCstats are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Netherlands License) would be enough.

I'll let you know when I get a reply from Wikimedia, or you can follow the post yourself here.

This is the response I got from the Wikimedia Commons administrator:



Given that he was essentially replying to your previous message (message 36977, which I simply copy/pasted to their Help Desk), the wording you suggested as your first option sounds good. If there are any other concerns, then let me know and I'll try to get the Wikimedia admins' input. They deal with copyright and licenses issues all the time, so they seem like a reliable source for such information.

I'm going to add that Rosetta@home project CpD image I mentioned before and note that it's under the free license you specified. By the way, what's the difference between a regular Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 license and a Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 Netherlands license?

Thanks!

Changed the licensing text.

It says Netherlands because, well, I'm from the Netherlands, and so is BOINCstats, thus the applicable law is the Dutch law system. But frankly, I don't have a clue what it all means, the license builder asks for the country one lives in and adds that to the text.