Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations

-- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Yana Welinder ywelinder@wikimedia.orgwrote: > Hi Rupert, > > Some Wikimedia logos are not currently under a free license for historic > reasons. But we hope to make them all freely licensed eventually and have > already done so for newer logos (e.g. the new Wikivoyage logo). > > Thanks, > Yana > > > -- > Yana Welinder > Legal Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > 415.839.6885 ext. 6867 > > NOTICE: For legal reasons, I may only serve as a lawyer for the > Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to, or serve > as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their > personal capacity. > > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.comwrote: > >> hi, >> >> i talked to james about the reasoning. it seems unequal that wikimedia's >> logo is restricted and allowed, the partners logo not. imo we should put >> the wikimedia logo's under a standard license, because the wikimedia >> foundation is giving a bad example without gaining a lot. >> >> rupert. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:07 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > Currently our policies do not allow the use of logos of organizations we >> > are collaborating with, even with permission from these organizations, >> in >> > the non mainspace areas of Wikipedia where we are collaborating. >> > >> > As this use "with permission" is legal, it is not in mainspace, and it >> > promotes the development of Wikipedia I have started a RfC here >> > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content#Logos_of_organ... >> > that we allow it. Thoughts? >> > >> > -- >> > James Heilman >> > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >> > >> > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine >> > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list >> > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe >> > > > >