[Koha-devel] New Koha Logo

[Anthony Youngman]

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 at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:koha-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rachel
Hamilton-Williams
Sent: 20 January 2005 04:33
To: MJ Ray
Cc: Mike.Lake at uts.edu.au; koha-devel at 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


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