On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 08:16:56 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
BTW, the shape of the logo itself isn't covered by either copyright, or "Urheberrecht", AFAIK. That's what trademarks are for. So a full redo of the logo should be unaffected by the original work. Of course it would still be fair to properly negotiate with the original author...
The composed shape is covered by copyright if you don't arrive at it independently... Which is unlikely for dlang.org. No different than a melody.
But all you need is to get written permission to modify it and use it for promoting commercial products related to D as covered by dlang.org without compensation. No reason to make it complex.
