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Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?



If you're more concerned about trademark issues, you could probably just use CC-BY and then mention somewhere that rhe logo is trademarked (as long as you don't use the (R) symbol implying registration of those trademarks).

Alternatively, if you want to use CC-BY-ND, your icon would not be distributed with Debian, but would be available through non free repositories. You could, as others have mentioned, have a generic "free" icon to use as a fallback, and then, if users choose go download the nonfree icon, they want to. This is all very mildly annoying, but it solves the problem we've been talking about for 20+ emails.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 08:24 <c.buhtz@posteo.jp> wrote:
Hello Daniel,

thank you for your reply.

Am 27.08.2024 14:18 schrieb Daniel Hakimi:
> 2. Are you worried about consumer confusion from somebody using your
> logo
> or a logo that kind of seems like yours (trademark), or are you worried
> about protecting the image, the artwork, and the style of artwork that
> go
> into it (copyright)?

I am not sure about the answers. But I think it is most about the first
case you described, if somebody using the logo for another
project/software not related to ours.

> 3. The cc-by-nd strikes me as the right copyright license here.

How does this fit into the Debian rules? Simon McVittie pointed out that
"nd" is not compatible with Debian.


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