[Foundation-l] New Meta-Wiki logo - Approved?

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 18:46:45 UTC 2008


On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Without offering judgment as to the question of whether the Meta-Wiki
> logo *in particular* shouldn't be public-domain, I will note that
> there are certainly reasons one may choose not to have a public-domain
> logo for a massively collaborative project that is not itself public-
> domain -- that instead is propagated under a free license. Having the
> logo available for broader (but sometimes proprietary or closed) usage
> may confuse those who look to the logo as a signal that the associated
> software is free.

And to license it under some copyleft license? While the Community
logo is under PD, any derivative may be under anything else. Writing
"Wikimedia Meta wiki" at the logo makes from it a derivative work.

But, I am not a lawyer, and I don't know how it may help, if it may
help at all :)




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