[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Meeting, 4 July 2004

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Stevertigo <utilitymuffinresearch2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Angela_ <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The situation regarding the rights to use the logo
> > is not yet clear.
> > Jimbo is in contact with David Friedland (Nohat)
> > about this. It was
> > felt important that David would not have veto rights
> > over where the
> > logo is used.
> 
> User:Pallusmagnus (may be misspelled) was the actual
> originator of the 3d logo, which Nohat simply
> augmented, (albeit substantially). If there's an issue
> of IP/conceptual ownership (GFDL??) PM would have far
> more rights to it than NH.

It was my understanding that all logos were released under terms of the GNU FDL
and with implicit permission granted to the foundation to use the images as its
trademarks. 

-- mav

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