Jimmy Wales wrote:
Alphax wrote:
Well, the Firefox and Wikipedia logos are both copyrighted and trademarked. Recreating them from scratch would at least solve the first issue.
That's just wrong. Recreating them from scratch would not solve the first issue at all.
That's like saying that if I type in all of a Harry Potter book from scratch, it's no longer copyrighted.
Argh, I meant in the same style, not the exact same thing... so if someone created an image of white globe with a chunk taken out of the top and letters all over it, and an orange stylised fox wrapped around it... would that be any better?
Please, I ask people, don't speculate on legal matters unless and until you've learned more about them.
As an aside: I've replaced some of the images in question (at least on [[User:NSR/userboxes]] with icons from the Nuvola icon set for KDE (shameless plug: these are going on Commons, linked from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nuvola), which are licensed under the LGPL, so if anyone wants to complain about the copyright or whatever on them, they can ask David Vignoni (the author) about them.