On Wednesday 16 November 2011 Nov, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > Hi, > > Personnaly I agree with the graphical aspect of the logo (ie make sure the > logo stands), one slight comment, you define a minimum size in centimeters, > but > that we might need a size definition for use on a screen (ie website). > > However, I am very skeptical about the where to use it part. > > Looking at the legal use for KDE logo: > > Copying of the KDE Logo is subject to the LGPL copyright license. Trading and > branding with the KDE Logo is subject to our trademark licence: > * The KDE logo can be used freely as long as it is not used to refer to > products other than KDE itself. There is no formal procedure to use it. > * Whilst not required you should acknowledge the KDE e.V.s rights by > mentioning "KDE, K Desktop Environment and the KDE Logo are trademarks of KDE > e.V." > > And for debian: > > The logo with “Debian” is released under the following license, due to > ongoing > concerns about trademarks. > > Copyright (c) 1999 Software in the Public Interest > This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone to refer to the Debian > project, but does not indicate endorsement by the project. > > Note: we would appreciate that you make the image a link to > http://www.debian.org/ if you use it on a web page. > > > Personnally I would simply copy the one from Debian, it is simple and covers > everything (as the one from KDE trigger a parser error in my mind between the > LGPL license and the you can only use it to refer to KDE...). >
Well, I have to see that I really agree with Cyrille. The proposed license document is, I find, complicated, overly restrictive and very unfriendly. I want people around the world to be able to spread their love for Calligra, not force them to fork the brand. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
