Bazaar logo: licence?

Mary Gardiner mary at puzzling.org
Thu Jul 10 23:22:16 BST 2008


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Sorry to be slow to respond, but we are investigating the specific
> licensing for the logo. In general, it would be considered a trademark
> subject to "You can use it if you are talking about bzr, in an official
> way (or in satire), but you can't use it to label your product which is
> *not* associated with bzr, just to trade on familiarity". I don't know
> if that violates the definition of "Free" given by Wikimedia Commons.

Yes it would and it therefore needs to be removed from Commons. Here's
their licencing policy: 

"Wikimedia Commons accepts only free content, that is, images and other
media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose."
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

I'll begin the process of having the logos deleted from Commons.

It would be good if someone could update
http://bazaar-vcs.org/LogoOptions with the policy when it is finalised.

-Mary



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