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The Golang Gopher is a design of Renee French, and the lack of attribution here is disappointing. Wouldn't these derivative works also be covered by her copyright?

https://blog.golang.org/gopher

The original Gopher is licensed under the Creative Commons 3 Attribution license: https://golang.org/doc/gopher/README

While technically you could license your own stuff under the WTFPL, these gopher images are still CC BY 3.0 underneath that.

I think in CC BY 3.0, as long as proper attribution is given, license of derivative works can be changed.

Licensor cannot revoke adaptation rights, as long as attribution is given, even for commercial use.

So the use of WTFPL is fine here, but the lack of attribution renders CC BY 3.0 non-applicable, and hence makes this repo a copyright infringement.

That's pretty much what I was trying to say... you can decline to add more license to your own work, and decline to ask for your own attribution, but you can't erase the underlying license and WTFPL the whole thing, as the only license.

We have already added licensing. Now it must be ok.

Good that you took action. But it is still not compliant. You must link to original work by Renee. You need include link to her blog, where she posted the design.

See here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

> If supplied, you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material.

For reference, here is how official Golang README puts it:

> The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. (http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/)

The lack of attribution here is refreshing. I am sick of living in a world where all ideas have to be meticulously accounted for.

It is also against the spirit of CC, and also against CC BY 3.0, which Gopher is licensed under.

If you don't like attributing, do not use things licensed under CC. It's that simple.

What if you are also against adhering to license terms?

One is free to do what one likes, but there are consequences.

Hey guys!

We will put right license here. Just tell us what to write to not break other licenses. We updated old images and added own new.

So how to be here? I think we should add license of original authors (while Olga updated them and put into ai). And put own license (free to any use) to others. Could you make right pull request here?

P.S. Work is not aimed to harm anyone and we

If golang has this much interest in mascot images, then game over. Time to start writing all services in golang. Sorry c# and Rust, you just don't have the same swaggage. Screw generics.

Rust does have the unofficial Ferris the crab: http://www.rustacean.net/

Gopher is a cool mascot, although I really enjoyed "The Autistic Gopher Hypothesis" I read some time ago.

For humor's shake: http://www.evanmiller.org/four-days-of-go.html

My Gopher has always made intense and direct eye contact:

http://i.imgur.com/8THC2th.jpg

oh what have you done to him? is he drugged on ADD/ADHD medication? ;)

Lovely dark teal gopher!

Imagine me making a very high-pitch squeaking sound, kind of like Kenneth from 30 Rock when he meets the cast of Night Court.

That is one CUTE gopher!

Thank you, that was a fun read!

I also don't think too much about licenses problem and make things instead. Please, help us to add right licenses where appropriate and feel free to add yours to keep all such artwork in one place.

1) the wtfpl is incompatible with the cc by that the gopher is licensed under. Please replace and properly attribute renee.

2) the wtfpl is not an open source license, or a software license, at all.

Then we should write which images were improved from original site and our own images put with CC license?

Can someone put these onto gopher ?

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