elementary OS has some beautiful wallpapers, which I imagine are open source, but I was surprised to find no details on their authorship in the Desktop pane of Settings. Where can I find information on the authors and their licenses?
- Go to
/usr/share/backgrounds
(or here) to find the name of the wallpaper image file - Find the corresponding license at https://github.com/elementary/wallpapers/blob/master/debian/copyright
(Some of the images do not have have free licenses.)
As of (at least) elementary OS 5 Juno and later, artist information is shown on hover in the Desktop settings. More information about each wallpaper can also be found in the GitHub repo.