Logos are copyright too ... What I think you should do is look at how Tux is licenced - he's copyright too. Larry's page on Tux is http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/. I thought the licence actually said something about promoting linux - maybe that got dropped possibly by accident. And if anybody remembers the MS ads about how linux can mutate (c't magazine put them on the web for people to laugh at :-), did you wonder why the four penguins weren't take-offs of Tux? Because MS would have got slammed for copyright infringement if they'd tried. Larry's page on Tux is http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/. I thought the licence actually said something about promoting linux - maybe that got dropped possibly by accident. Actually, you might like to tie in with Paul Poulain's idea and say that the logo is copyright, but may be freely used and reproduced either with pukka Koha or by organisations that are part of Paul's "GIE". That way, you will end up a little bit like RedHat/WhiteBox linux - the two are identical but without RedHat's permission you can't use the name or Fedora, so you're both being true to Free Software's spirit - letting the software go free - but you're also protecting the name and logo of Koha - just like Linus protects the trademark linux and linux distributors protect their trademarks etc. Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: koha-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:koha-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rachel Hamilton-Williams Sent: 20 January 2005 04:33 To: MJ Ray Cc: Mike.Lake@uts.edu.au; koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] New Koha Logo
but please make a logo available under a free software licence ASAP (GPL?) so that I can localise it as needed, like as part of the koha release.
I need some help on the whole "what license thing" - the situation I'm least keen on, is say the "egg" being associated with some other product/company name - ie becoming dissociated from Koha and attached to something else. IS that covered by the GPL type license? And I really wouldn't like the egg and the koha text to say be taken over by say www.koha.com - which I'm pretty sure is a bunch of hockey players. SO is that covered as well? I'm completely calm with the logo being used in whatever medium etc for the promotion of Koha - and changing colours/sizes - sticking in/over things etc is all fine (although I'll let you know if I see one that's ugly :-) SO I'll take your advice/thoughts on that. Am I being paranoid? Is this achievable etc etc. I'm not interested in protecting the logo for *katipo* but I really would like to protect it for *koha* - does that seem possible? Cheers Rachel **************************************************************************** This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 8272 5300, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. ****************************************************************************