Daniel Arnold wrote:
On Friday 27 July 2007 12:23:28 Daniel Kinzler wrote:
b) make the logos free content, and rely on trademark law to protect them against abuse. This would in theory be the best solution IMHO, but does not seem feasible in practice (trademark registration is per country, for a limited time, for a limited purpose, harder to enforce, and quite expensive if done for all logos in many countries).
Indeed that's the very problem. And relying on moral rights (which could be an option too) is a bit too weak for the Foundation.
But I have a third option:
How about creating a "community" icon? An icon that can be used by anyone who likes, supports, reuses, whatever the project?
I'd say: Interested talented people just start creating a Wikimedia Commons community icon which is reusable under CC-BY (any version). Everyone who think using it for his work is apropriate can use it.
I had the same idea, but inspired on Debian, who has a copyrighted icon and a free icon, instead of Tux.
My first idea was a wikipedish logo of a circle with a W in it (with the other letters surrounding?). Much more flat, less visual identity, but you can still associate them.