On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've put in keep opinions for all the ones listed there.
What this is is a recurrence of an issue that comes around every so
often; whether non-copyright restrictions are important as regards
freedom for images. The NASA case (and other US government insignia)
can be regarded as a special case of trademark protection in most
ways. Wikipedia's track record is that the depiction of trademarked
items does not render an image unfree for our purposes, and this
should follow the same logic.
That being said, when NASA logos are unnecessary in an image and it
doesn't hurt the image to crop them out, I'd vote for removing them.
-Matt