[Foundation-l] Use of Wikimedia-Logo's in articles

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Tue Sep 5 00:33:59 UTC 2006


On 9/3/06, Tuvic <tuvic.tuvic at gmail.com> wrote:
> The discussion is about the logo's:  some editors say the content of
> Wikipedia is GFDL, and the logo is not, so the logo should not be in the
> article.
> Others think the use is allowed, because the logo's are the
> Wikipedia-logo's, and if we themselve can't use them, they are just
> obsolete.
> Eve other just say: it's on Commons, so it's alright.
>
It's probably not a violation of the GFDL, any more than Red Hat
putting proprietary works onto a Red Hat Linux CD violates the GPL
(which it doesn't).

There also doesn't seem to be any guidance from the foundation, so
that leaves it up to each project to decide for itself, I suppose...

Anthony



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