Would it be possible to license the image data?

[mkcor]

Hello,

I'm opening this issue in a context where I'd like to use one of the images found in ExampleHuman/. The license for this repo applies to the actual software.

Would it be possible to license the images explicitly? Using CC0 for example?

/cc @bethac07

Thank you very much,
Marianne

[bethac07]

It's ultimately not up to us, but up to the owner of each individual image set, though I'll make a note to my team to try to figure out license status for each one.
For that one, I don't know if that EXACT image is included in it, but a large number of images from that screen are found in our bioimage repository as CC-BY-NC-SA

[mkcor]

Hi @bethac07,

Thank you very much for the prompt reply!

Sure, it's not always possible to trace back the author of an image and ask them to (re)license it...

For that one, I don't know if that EXACT image is included in it, but a large number of images from that screen are found in our bioimage repository as CC-BY-NC-SA

Yes, I haven't been able to make sure it is included, but from the filename and the rest, it really looks like it would be (although in a different format: DIB as opposed to TIFF).

Following my discussion with the scikit-image team, I was wondering if you could help us with this specific image: is the author Jason Moffat? We'd like to see if releasing this specific image either in the public domain or under CC0 would be possible at all. 🤞

[bethac07]

The copyright holder is David Root; I've reached out to him to see what he thinks and will let you know as soon as I hear back!

[mkcor]

@bethac07 Oh, ok! Thank you so very much for all your efforts. I look forward to hearing back from you!

[bethac07]

Sorry, it took a couple rounds of poking folks, but see below :)

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[bethac07]

Actually, reopening to remind us to do this for all the others when we update the examples for the 4.0 release

[mkcor]

@bethac07 fantastic! Thank you so very much :)