[WikiEN-l] Re: Images on user pages

Fri Sep 16 01:15:46 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Alphax wrote:
> 
>>Well, the Firefox and Wikipedia logos are both copyrighted and
>>trademarked. Recreating them from scratch would at least solve the first
>>issue.
> 
> 
> That's just wrong.  Recreating them from scratch would not solve the
> first issue at all.
> 
> That's like saying that if I type in all of a Harry Potter book from
> scratch, it's no longer copyrighted.
> 

Argh, I meant in the same style, not the exact same thing... so if
someone created an image of white globe with a chunk taken out of the
top and letters all over it, and an orange stylised fox wrapped around
it... would that be any better?

> Please, I ask people, don't speculate on legal matters unless and until
> you've learned more about them.
> 

As an aside: I've replaced some of the images in question (at least on
[[User:NSR/userboxes]] with icons from the Nuvola icon set for KDE
(shameless plug: these are going on Commons, linked from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nuvola), which are licensed under the
LGPL, so if anyone wants to complain about the copyright or whatever on
them, they can ask David Vignoni (the author) about them.

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