[Fwd: License of Mercurial logo]
Bastian Doetsch
bastian.doetsch at gmx.de
Sat Aug 2 17:15:50 UTC 2008
Am Samstag, den 02.08.2008, 11:40 -0500 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> [cc:ing to -devel]
>
> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:02 +0200, Bastian Doetsch wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > as I haven't had any response on the mailing list, I'd like to ask you
> > directly - I'm now pretty confident, the logo applies to GPL2, so the
> > question is if there's a chance for us to use the droplet icon. A
> > simple no from you guys would be okay for me, but I'd actually prefer
> > to use the Mercurial logo to make it visually clear that the Eclipse
> > integration is all about Mercurial.
>
> I'm still deciding how best to do this. I'd like to make the license for
> the logo extremely permissive, but avoid abuses. Perhaps something like
> the following (DRAFT):
>
> In addition to use under the GPLv2, the Mercurial logo in
> logo-droplets.svg may freely used and adapted by projects providing
> Mercurial integration and support so long as those projects do not
> violate Mercurial's licensing terms.
>
IANAL, but sounds good for me. The last sentence is possibly
superfluous: Why should someone who violates Mercurial's license not
violate the logos license? Products violating the Mercurial license
should be made to disappear anyways.
Have you thought about using a creative commons license for the logo?
Bastian
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