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
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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:58 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
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(a)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_orga…
that we allow it. Thoughts?
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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