[Commons-l] Trademarks

Tue Sep 13 19:57:28 UTC 2005

The system is free but the Gnome logo isn't under free license. Try create a 
System with this logo. You can't. Like the Wikimedia logo.

hugs,
Felipe.

2005/9/13, David Benbennick <dbenbenn at gmail.com>:
> 
> On 9/13/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > The core goal of Commons is maximal reuse.
> 
> Actually, that's incorrect. Lots of previous discussions have used
> arguments similar to the following: Suppose, for example, that Saudi
> Arabia bans photographs of nude people. "Maximal reuse" would require
> us to then delete the contents of [[Category:Nudity]]. The decision
> has been to simply *ignore* that kind of issue, because the
> alternative would mean our content is held hostage to every individual
> country's idea of morality.
> 
> Personally, I believe we can keep trademark images that are under a
> free license, for example [[Image:Gnomelogo.png]], though I suspect
> there are not many examples of such images anyway.
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-- 
um abraço,
Felipe
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