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UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by blondin »

anges244 wrote: post #8
solarkraft wrote: post #5

I love the project, but dislike what a meaningless bullshit buzz term "open source" is nowadays (or may always have been). Tesla's open source patents, open source recipes, open source illustration ... What source is open here? The vector data? Great, I can get the source, but what does this actually mean for my use of it? Can I just use it in my projects? I think the terms you are looking for are "royalty free" or "…

It was the easier way to signal what exactly unDraw was back then when it was launched and since SVG images are code, it was much cleaner than writing CC(whatever) for users to understand. It remains that way but it will be much clearer in the new version.

> It remains that way but it will be much clearer in the new version.

nope. open source isn't making anything clearer in this case. in fact using that word made me wonder what exactly the license is for this... still not exactly sure what it is.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by Thorentis »

> Use cutting-edge tech to change colors for images that match your brand.

I'm not sure I'd call changing the colour parameter in an SVG "cutting edge tech" but oh well.

Overall looks good, might check out the license more fully before using it though.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by userbinator »

mc3 wrote: post #16
ourmandave wrote: post #15

Be weird if this took off like Bootstrap and people would start writing articles about how every website looks UnDraw-ish.

Sites do look UnDraw-ish. I noticed a lot of sites using the flat-front-on-people type illustrations.

Microsoft started using a similar style a few years ago, although I don't know if it started it and UnDraw came afterwards, or vice-versa. Now it's everywhere. IMHO it looks very bland and boring.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by Eikon »

mc3 wrote: post #20
anges244 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is completely free.

Sorry, I mean free as in "Libre". Freedom to do what you want with the software.

That's really a stance of the FSF I dislike, redefining "Free" to something that was ideologically pleasing to them but that means something absolutely different for everyone else.

Creating tons of confusion and not helping their cause at all as free proprietary software may benefit from the label when distributed to the masses as they heard "free" software is good.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by hinkley »

xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #9

The license ( https://undraw.co/license ) of the illustrations is definitely not open-source: >This license does not include the right to compile assets, vectors or images from unDraw to replicate a similar or competing service, in any form or distribute the assets in packs. This extends to automated and non-automated ways to link, embed, scrape, search or download the assets included on the website without our conse…

You've never heard of people plagiarizing others' entire sites before?

This is exactly the sort of thing you say when you're trying to make data public but keep someone else from slapping a different header on your data and pretending they did all the work.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by vinrob92 »

ignoramous wrote: post #3

I have used undraw.co and the illustrations are plenty, neat, and customizable to a degree. For something that's royalty-free, it is an incredible body of work. Here are some more related resources I've seen recommended by others: Photoshop but for Illustrations (paid): https://www.drawkit.io/peach https://icons8.com/ouch https://www.humaaans.com/ https://www.manypixels.co/gallery/

Thank you for mentioning the ManyPixels gallery! We set it up as we wanted to provide different style of illustrations. It is also a great marketing tool for our main business.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by jordigh »

mc3 wrote: post #17
xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #9

The license ( https://undraw.co/license ) of the illustrations is definitely not open-source: >This license does not include the right to compile assets, vectors or images from unDraw to replicate a similar or competing service, in any form or distribute the assets in packs. This extends to automated and non-automated ways to link, embed, scrape, search or download the assets included on the website without our conse…

It's not free. But it is open source.

Open source is meant to be a corporate-friendly synonym for "free software".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Origins

This basically means that if it's not free, it's not open source either.

Re: UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

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Post by jordigh »

Eikon wrote: post #25
mc3 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I mean free as in "Libre". Freedom to do what you want with the software.

That's really a stance of the FSF I dislike, redefining "Free" to something that was ideologically pleasing to them but that means something absolutely different for everyone else. Creating tons of confusion and not helping their cause at all as free proprietary software may benefit from the label when distributed to the masses as they heard "free" software is good.

The FSF did not originate the meaning of "free software". They insist upon it, but before 1998 when "open source" was coined, "free software" was just what everyone called it. Even OpenBSD, who staunchly disagrees on a lot of things with the FSF, has been calling itself "free software" since 1996.
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