Commons:Deletion requests/File:Blender 4.4-splash screen.png

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File:Blender 4.4-splash screen.png

This is a screenshot of Flow, a copyrighted film. This file is not listed on the Blender splash screen page, so it likely isn't under the same CC license as the other ones. I would love to be proven wrong since this file would be incredibly useful, but right now I think precautionary principle applies. Perhaps somebody could contact the Blender Foundation on social media for clarification? ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 02:44, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1) The splash screen does not show up on the splash screen page, because the version is currently in beta until 2025-03-12 (see https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.4/ ). It thereby is not a big surprise that the splash screen does not show up here.

2) On https://www.blender.org/about/license/ under "License details" it says that "All the components that together make Blender are compatible under the newer GNU GPL Version 3 or later." In my opinion the splash screen image is one of those "components" and as it was included in the project it is freely licenced. So there is no reason to delete the image. For now I corrected the licence information as described in 4).

3) Another example would be eg. File:Blender 2.79-splash.jpg. Even though the film itself and much of it's artwork (eg. this) is published under CC-BY-ND 4.0, the splash itself is freely licenced.

4) The "Website license" on the general licence page links to this website where under "Website Content License" it says that "Unless specified otherwise, the content on this website is available to share and use under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license." The hyperlink leads to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence. Thereby all the work from this page would also be licenced under the same licence even though it would contain screenshots of the same movie.

I guess I'll have to contact either Thomas Dinges (the person how pushed the commit) or Francesco Siddi about this.

--D-Kuru (talk) 08:15, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you could say I doubled down on my upload and my believe that the image is licenced under a free licence. Take a look at the linked image and feel free to nominate this one for deletion as well. If it turns out to be not freely licenced I usually clean up after my mistakes and delete these images myself (see Commons:Deletion requests/File:Agent 327 - Operation Barbershop-movie poster.jpg as example)

I contacted both Thomas Dinges and Francesco Siddi about this. Let's see if they can help out here. --D-Kuru (talk) 08:45, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment UPDATE: blender 4.4 was released. The image can now be found here with a description that says

Splash artwork: Flow © Dream Well Studio, Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five
Image licensed under CC-BY-SA – https://flow.movie/

I have updated the source, author and licence information for the image. I added the following note below the licence: "The image comment on https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/ says "Image licensed under CC-BY-SA" with no version defined. Since there is no version information available, the Website Content License says "unless specified otherwise [...]" and a link to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence is provided, it is assumed that this is the correct licence version."
I also deleted old versions of the page to avoid having a wrong licence in there (as Creative Commons licences can not be revoked, this could lead to wrong reuses in the future). But anybody can feel free to undelete the history or request it. No idea if this licence also applies to File:Flow (2024 film)-screenshots.jpg though. As it is now, it can be assumed because there is nothing else noted on the website and the general Website Content License says so.
@ArtemisiaGentileschiFan: I consider this problem as solved and the DR can be closed in my opinion. --D-Kuru (talk) 18:02, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@D-Kuru: Thank you, this is helpful. I retract this nomination since the licensing is now clear. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 18:05, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kept, withdrawn. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 19:04, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]