[PATCH 00/12] add PNG support

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:50:50PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 18:03 Thu 06 Sep     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > The discussion in this thread makes it clear that there are two problems
> > with this logo, one technical and one political.
> > 
> > The technical problem:
> > 
> > From a technical pov it makes no sense to put big image binaries into
> > the repository when a small svg image would be sufficient to generate
> > all other images.
> > 
> > The political problem:
> > 
> > For an open source project a closed image is a no go. We (and by we I
> > mean we as the community, not we as Pengutronix) must for example be
> > able to:
> > 
> > - generate versions with different colors, sizes, dimensions
> > - generate a logo without text
> > - modify the image and to redistribute without limitations
> > - add a journal to the logo and use it for bwn.org (barebox weekly news) ;)
> As on Linux, Meego , Mozilla, Coreboot and others Logo are copyrighted and protected

>From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg:

| The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any
| purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed.
| Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is
| permitted.

So the Linux logo can explicitely be modified (derivative work)

You mentioned that:
> It's free to USE without modification for the Barebox Project
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whereas is coreboot we have (from http://www.coreboot.org/Logo):

| This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone to refer to the
| coreboot project

btw, the mentioned projects do not seem to have a problem with svg
files:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/MeeGo_logo.svg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Mozilla_Foundation_logo.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/e/ec/Coreboot_logo.svg

> 
> This is a standard for project image protection
> 
> Modify the image means the image is not Barebox Logo
> (Modify in the limit of the Licence)

Does this mean it can be modified or exactly the opposite?

Could you send a license text?

Thanks
 Sascha


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