microg / microg/GmsCore

Wikimedia Commons: People want to delete microG screenshots due to being derivative works (licensing/copyright issues)

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Description

These images are up-for-debate for deletion:

Apparently I uploaded these images (as CC0) and so I got the notification.
AFAIK/what the page shows the images are not used in Wikipedia articles, but well.

The claim is:

screenshots are derivative works not own work

I am not sure legally about that, but if @mar-v-in just got a permission to use the screenshot of an app(?) then maybe that helps?
Otherwise, does that imply/mean the images are now licensed under the Apache2 license?
Also never heard that I cannot do screenshots and use them even of proprietary software? (But maybe that's just citation rights then.)

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Tech stack
android
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content
Issue type
Documentation
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5/5
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