Re: Wikiversity logo

"Brianna Laugher" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> >3) If so, whose fool idea was it to use a third-party LGPL icon as a
> >logo (rather hard to subsume as {{CopyrightByWikimedia}} like the
> >other project logos), and what is the status of this vote?
> >http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity/logo
> >
<snip>
> Perhaps not so foolish. If the image is actually LGPL then it can be
> used without permission on the Wikimedia Foundation when people wish to
> publish GFDL'ed materials from Wikiversity ..... correct?
>
> IIRC it took months/years for the Wikibooks people to sort out how to go
> about publishing a Wiki Junior book due to trademark and logo issues
> surrounding the "Wikibooks" trademark and logo.

The only reason all the other project logos are
{{CopyrightByWikimedia}} is because the WMF wanted them to be that
way. Presumably they want that for all their official project logos.

At any rate, it seems not to be important, because the image I was
talking about is not a contender in this vote.

regards,
Brianna
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