On 02/04/2008, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
I had a screenshot of wikipedia I made and uploaded for debugging
purposes deleted as unfree...
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.
Seems reasonable to me. Maybe I should have anonymised Wikipedia by
blocking out the copyright part of the interface and declared the rest
as PD/GPL. The generic visual representation of a user interface
produced entirely by GPL software should not be under any copyright
restrictions ;-)
Peter