On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:50:50PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:

On 18:03 Thu 06 Sep     , Sascha Hauer wrote:

quoted

The discussion in this thread makes it clear that there are two problems
with this logo, one technical and one political.

The technical problem:

From a technical pov it makes no sense to put big image binaries into
the repository when a small svg image would be sufficient to generate
all other images.

The political problem:

For an open source project a closed image is a no go. We (and by we I
mean we as the community, not we as Pengutronix) must for example be
able to:

- generate versions with different colors, sizes, dimensions
- generate a logo without text
- modify the image and to redistribute without limitations
- add a journal to the logo and use it for bwn.org (barebox weekly news) ;)

As on Linux, Meego , Mozilla, Coreboot and others Logo are copyrighted and protected

From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg:

| The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any
| purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed.
| Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is
| permitted.

So the Linux logo can explicitely be modified (derivative work)

You mentioned that:

It's free to USE without modification for the Barebox Project

                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whereas is coreboot we have (from http://www.coreboot.org/Logo):

| This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone to refer to the
| coreboot project

btw, the mentioned projects do not seem to have a problem with svg
files:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/MeeGo_logo.svg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Mozilla_Foundation_logo.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/e/ec/Coreboot_logo.svg

This is a standard for project image protection

Modify the image means the image is not Barebox Logo
(Modify in the limit of the Licence)

Does this mean it can be modified or exactly the opposite?

Could you send a license text?

Thanks
 Sascha


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