seal-rookery 0.9.25

A collection of court seals that can be used in any project.

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IMAGES
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1. With respect to United States federal court or agency images, these works are
in the public domain in the United States because they are works prepared by an
officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s
official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US
Code.

2. With respect to any state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or
any other subdivision images: Any information known about the copyright status
of these works will be listed here, however no information available at this
time.


SOFTWARE
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This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit
of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
software under copyright law.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
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For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org>

Download-URL: https://github.com/freelawproject/seal-rookery/archive/0.9.25.tar.gz
Description: Welcome to the Court Seal Rookery
=================================

This is a collection of court seals that can be cloned and used in any
project. Original files can be found in the ``orig`` directory and
converted versions can be found in the numerical directories.

The goal of this project is to collect and maintain an updated
repository of all the seals that courts have created and to create seals
for those rare courts that lack them altogether.

Contributing
------------

This project is blissfully easy to contribute to and we need lots of
help gathering or making files. The process for this is pretty simple.

1. Find or make the image and ensure it follows our quality guidelines
(below).
2. Add the image file to the ``orig`` directory.
3. Edit ``seals.json`` to include the relevant fields for your new file.

That's it!

index.html is a tool for quickly being able to see the progress on
obtaining seals and quickly check the quality of the seals that have
been obtained. You can refresh this file by opening it and pasting in
the contents of seals.json where indicated (sloppy but effective).

If you wish to get involved as a developer, you'll want to install this
repository from git. Do the following:

1. Install imagemagick:

::

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

2. Download and link up the code:

::

sudo git clone https://github.com/freelawproject/seal-rookery /usr/local/seal_rookery
sudo ln -s `pwd`/seal_rookery `python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"`/seal_rookery

3. Install from your local source:

::

python setup.py install

4. Update the local copies of the images:

::

update-seals

Installation for Non-Developers
-------------------------------

Basic usage doesn't require any installation, but if you wish to import
the ``seals.json`` file into a Python program, you may want to install
the Seal Rookery as a Python module in your system. To do so:

1. Install imagemagick

::

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

2. Install the seal rookery

::

pip install seal_rookery

3. Update the seals

::

update-seals

You can then import the ``seals.json`` information into your project
using:

::

from seal_rookery import seals_data

And you will have various sizes of all the seals ready to go on your
system.

Quality Guidelines
------------------

Fact is, images are hard to work with and courts don't always do the
best job. Follow these guidelines so we can have nice things:

1. Convert your original file to ``png`` or ``svg``, as appropriate. If
you have the ``ps`` file, include that as well.
2. If you use transparency or the file has it, make sure the file looks
OK on a background other than white. If it looks bizarre on an orange
or blue background, fix it by adding a white layer on the bottom.
3. Trim any extraneous margins and if the seal is circular, make the
corners transparent.
4. If the item was previously a ``jpeg`` or ``gif``, it's good to clean
up the splotchiness created by the ``jpeg`` compression. You'll see
it if you zoom in.

Usage
-----

We know of no instances where courts have requested a take down of their
seal, however usage of government seals has caused a
`few <https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/nsa-spying-fine-trademark-infringement-crosse>`__
`stirs <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html>`__ in the past.
Don't attempt to represent the government or its agents.

Deployment
----------

1. Update the version info in setup.py.

2. Install the requirements in requirements-dev.txt

3. Set up a config file at ~/.pypirc containing the upload locations and
authentication credentials.

4. Generate a distribution:

::

python setup.py bdist_wheel

5. Upload the distribution:

::

twine upload dist/* -r pypi

Copyright
---------

Two things. First, if you are creating original work, please consider
signing and emailing a contributor license to us so that we may protect
the work later, if needed. We do this because we have a lot of
experience with IP litigation, and this is a good way to protect a
project.

Second, if you're just curious about the copyright of this repository,
see the License file for details. The short version of this is you can
pretty much use it however you desire.

Credits Where Due
-----------------

This project inspired by the initial `visualization
work <https://d57dd304fefca1aa423fea1b4dc59f23c06dd95e.googledrive.com/host/0B2GQktu-wcTiWm82NGt5MTZreHM/>`__
of @nowherenearithaca.

Keywords: legal,seals
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Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules