Open heART

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About Open heART

The aim of this group is to hold togheter every digital artist firmly convincted of the necessity to make professional art sharing some principles from the open source community. As every social group, we build a common identity, and our identity is based on the will to proof the possibility of graphic art made in a professional way using open tools.

In order to achieve this task we put a few basic rules that should lead your great and coloured posts:

1) We trust copyleft as general trend to avoid some odds restrictions on the so-called 'intellectual property'. History shows how hard an undertaking it is trying to control copy and spread of a work of art, and how silly it is keeping on in today's 'Age of Mechanical Reproduction'. As a result, we ask that every picture posted on this pool should be released under one of the many Creative Commons licence, no matter which, since the free of copy and distribution lays untouched on the very top of all them.

2) We appreciate open graphic tools (i.e released under a GPL licence), such as Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Alchemy and so on. This does not mean we think there is no digital art apart from them. In fact, most of us do use both open source and proprietary softwares, and we think this is best this way, since there should be art at all costs and with whatever tool, if good art. Just, there are proper places for everything and so this group is the place in wich to celebrate only graphic art made using the tools we just described.

Join us, we hope you will enjoy it!