Hi everyone, Mixxx 1.7.0 is going to be the first version of Mixxx that ships with our logo embedded inside it (in the About screen). This got me thinking about our art's licensing, copyright, and our trademark. There have been several off-list discussions about these things at various points, and now is a good time to summarize these for you.
Art Licensing In our opinion, the GNU GPL isn't a suitable license for artwork, and we should probably relicense our art. I think a Creative Commons license would be clearer, but I don't fully understand the impact of this license on our ability to be packaged for the Ubuntu and Debian repositories. Can anyone advise? Trademark Embedding our logo inside Mixxx means we'll be licensing the logo under some Creative Commons license or something along those lines. This will mean that our logo will be "freely" distributable under copyright law. However, we still fully reserve ownership rights to the Mixxx trademark, and are prepared to enforce this against individuals, organizations, and corporations who abuse it. Currently, what constitutes "abuse" is at our discretion, but a public trademark policy on our website would help us bring more transparency to this. What resources do we have to construct a public trademark policy? Thanks, Albert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
