License

[jayvdb]

A hairy issue ... what is the license for this repo? Presumably the images come from various sources, with different licenses.

Store licenses in the exif? ;-)

[ianare]

Most images come from wikimedia commons, and are free to use even for commercial purposes as long as the original author is credited. I've put the original filename and license info in the readme of each folder... though there may be some omissions.

[Vest]

@ianare, I apologize for reviving the thread. Do you know if I can use your images in my unit tests? My code just downloads the image by URL, and reads EXIFs and then deletes them.

Do I need any license, permission, whatever? I don't store the images in my repo.

[jayvdb]

Any of the files which come from Wikimedia Commons can definitely be used how you describe @Vest.

To be truly compliant with licenses, each file in this repository needs to have a link to the page in Wikimedia Commons, and sometimes it needs to also credit the author, but that isnt critical for your use @Vest.

Also, it would be good if there was a bit more clarity about which files are not from Wikimedia Commons, and then work out what licenses they are.

So there is still a low priority task here, retroactively building the provenance needed to comply with the licenses of these files. But it is a low priority, as Wikimedia Commons, and their contributors and admin (of which I am one) are unlikely to come here causing trouble. More likely, they will come and help get the metadata added.

[Moto42]

I came across this repo in an Upwork listing I proposed to.
I hope I'm not intruding.

Just putting something like "Images sourced from {List of sources}" in the readme.rst should have you covered.

If you're still worried, a file like 'imageLiscences.md' with

Images sourced from {source site}
{List of images from that source}

for each source should more than cover it.