[Foundation-l] Wikimedia logos on Commons

Sat Aug 25 15:02:01 UTC 2007

Has anyone asked Mike's opinion on the discussion?  Last I checked he was
working on trademarks (and probably logos too).  I'm sure he'd find this
somewhat interesting.

On 8/25/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
> Brian wrote:
> > I think Erik really got to the heart of the issue. If this _were_ an
> issue,
> > it boils down to the fact that you need to have legal protection of
> certain
> > digital media that is somewhat stricter than your philosophy usually
> > permits, and finding a way to tackle that problem in all open source
> > projects is the place to do this, perhaps with a new type of license.
> >
>
> Well, the way the Debian project solved this is by [gasp!] just freely
> licensing their logo, as far as copyright goes, but retaining a
> trademark that they can use to prohibit misleading uses.
>
> (They do also have a "this logo is for official Debian use only" logo,
> but it's not the common one that is usually associated with the project.)
>
> See: http://www.debian.org/logos/
>
> IMO this is a much better way of handling it without inviting obvious
> discussions about consistency.
>
> -Mark
>
>
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