Bazaar logo: licence?

[Ben Finney]

Mary Gardiner <mary at puzzling.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > In general, it would be considered a trademark subject to […] 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

Indeed, I've yet to see any trademark license that prevents what
trademark is designed to prevent (i.e. misuse of the familiarity
associated with the mark) simultaneously with granting the freedoms
that free culture (etc.) are designed to grant.

Even the Debian project, those stalwarts striving to make the entire
Debian operating system meet their standards of freedom, have yet to
resolve this contradiction for their own logo.

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Ben Finney