Peter, I used the Creative Commons licensing form that John Cowan suggested and placed the license texts within the image source directory:
http://joshuagriffith.com/chicken/logo/license.html http://joshuagriffith.com/chicken/logo/license.txt Will this work for you? -Josh On Jun 5, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Peter Bex wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 03:47:21PM -0500, Joshua Griffith wrote: >> Hello Peter, >> >> I never put much thought into it and simply wanted to give the logo to the >> community. >> Perhaps it's a good idea to make that explicit. Let me know what license >> would be most convenient and I'll release it under that license. > > I'd say one of the CC licenses would probably be the most > straightforward, but I'd of course also like to know what others in > the community think. > > Wikipedia is very restrictive in the types of licenses they allow: > > They don't accept works that don't allow commercial use or that forbid > derivative works, so one of: CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA would be fine. > Using the Free Art license is also allowed. Putting it in the public > domain is also sort-of allowed. They don't allow GFDL-only licensed > stuff anymore. > >> Of course, if Wikipedia requires specific permission from me to upload the >> logo, you have it. > > Thank you. They're mostly concerned with redistribution and > modification ("remixing") by third parties though. > > The full story: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Copyright_and_licensing > > Their docs are confusing, contradictory and just generally hairy. > Sorry to drag you into this bullshit :( > > Cheers, > Peter > -- > http://sjamaan.ath.cx > -- > "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer > is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically > and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic > experience much like composing poetry or music." > -- Donald Knuth
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