Re: Legal formalities to accept log and design

Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
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Baiju M wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Baiju M wrote:
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>>> What about committing SVG (source)  file, so that others can modify
>>> easily.
>> How doe the SVG source files interact with the (TrueType, I presume?)
>> font file?
> 
> Font is TrueType, but I am not sure about how it is embedded in SVG.
> 
>>> BTW, logos comes under trademark law, which is different from
>>> copyright law.  Or is it like the actual source files can be covered
>>> under copyright, so that we can use a license based on copyright
>>> law ?
>> Committers can't check in the GPL'ed font file itself to SVN without a
>> waiver from the board, nor any files which count as "derived works" (and
>> therefore must be GPL'ed),  unless the "derived work" is covered by the
>> font exception.
> 
> I will only commit the SVG, PNG, ICO & JPEG formats, is that Ok ?
> 
> BTW, as I mentioned the font has "font exception".

I think that should be fine.


Tres.
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