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Monday Photopost: Quebec City Wall Mural

Stacy Cashman has some great pictures of wall murals in Quebec City at her Rambling Traveler blog. Go there to learn more about the murals and see the uncropped and larger version of the picture below and two others.

I love the detail with the birds and the balloon having shadows. I also wonder what it’s like in these buildings with no real windows facing out.

Stacy makes all of her work available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, so I can heartily recommend her as a fine purveyor of free culture.

Of course, the nature of things today suggests that somebody might claim the art on the building is copyrighted and thus pictures of it are not free. I say, no way! If you …

Check out the Rambling Traveler!

Taking a break from all the heavy GNU/Linux and Samba network drive stuff of the past couple of posts, I’d like to point you to a non-technology site. It *is* free culture related, though, because the proprietor offers all of her work under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Check out Rambling Traveler. It’s my big sister’s travel blog. (Ok, so maybe I had some influence in the licensing idea. I’ll say that she was very receptive to the idea though.)

Stacy has a lot of great pictures and stories from her travels. You’ll find a link there to her Flickr page where she has some spectacular shots from Ireland, the Mediterranean, and other places, with many more to come. There are also some slideshows on YouTube. The picture from this …

GNU/Solaris and GPLv3

I found an interesting article at The Register yesterday, “Is ‘GNU/Solaris’ emerging from the Microsoft-Novell deal?” It would be awesome if Sun released the Solaris kernel under the GPLv3, because I think that would be a chance to observe differences between idealistic and pragmatic approaches to free software.

Looking around, I see Linux Today picked up the story, and in comments there I found out there are already projects in progress around an existing free/open Solaris, including OpenSolaris.org and the Nexenta Operating System, which combines GNU with OpenSolaris. But OpenSolaris is based on Sun’s CDDL, and not the GPL, which I strongly prefer.

Why am I writing on these matters of which I know very little? Because …