[Commons-l] Wikimedia Logos on Commons: Possible Solution

[Platonides]

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.