It doesn't communicate very well. All this website says is: you don't pay anything, so you're getting a sh__tty quality. Plus you have no right to want anything more.
There are tons of good free high quality wallpapers on deviantart.com, and for those that aren't "free as in freedom", I think it's up to negotiation with the author of a particular wallpaper. Some of them will probably be delighted to be selected by gnu.org to be the producer of GNU-approved art.
> Some of them will probably be delighted to be selected by gnu.org to be the producer of GNU-approved art.
They would have to select themselves. TFA is essentially fan art that happens to have the right size for a wallpaper, nothing more. I'm pretty sure the FSF doesn't have a marketing budget that'd allow commissioning artists for any significant number of "official" wallpapers.
Some of the linked wallpapers do not have their source files linked. As far as I know the GPL requires that the preferred version of the source is also made available and neither png nor jpeg qualify for most image manipulation tools. At least a few have the xcf also linked.
Why do you think they're GPL-licenced? Did I miss the license on the page?
Also, if you read about the FSF they don't advocate for all non-software to be free. Some documentation from the FSF is not included in Debian because the Debian developers deemed it not free enough, because some parts are marked as non-modifiable.
At least this one is https://www.gnu.org/graphics/this-is-freedom-wallpaper.html , stated below the image. However that brings up annother issue, which license applies to the images that do not have an explicit license stated? Is it the creative commons stated for the website itself and would this also apply to the externally hosted images?
I guess the CC license is just for the page, as the image are hosted someplace else and are not explicitly included in the license footer (which is the standard footer throughout the FSF/GNU website.)
If the images themselves don't specify any license they fall back to "all rights reserved".
There are tons of good free high quality wallpapers on deviantart.com, and for those that aren't "free as in freedom", I think it's up to negotiation with the author of a particular wallpaper. Some of them will probably be delighted to be selected by gnu.org to be the producer of GNU-approved art.