[vdr] Anyone having contacts to ZDF? (Re: TV channel logo collection)

2008-07-02 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, So far, noone turned down the request and I have collected a critical mass of logos within a few days: http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Logo_Collection Sigh. I got the first refusal. To my surprise by the non-commercial public German TV channel ZDF. If anyone is having good

Re: [vdr] TV channel logo collection - logo requests and illustrator/freehand help

2008-07-02 Thread Ludwig Nussel
Hanno Zulla wrote: The strategy is to ask for vector graphics logos and for permission to use them in OSD and EPG non-commercial open-source applications. This will make the collection versatile enough to be used beyond vdr, e.g for mythtv etc. That 'non-commercial' restriction pretty much

Re: [vdr] TV channel logo collection - logo requests and illustrator/freehand help

2008-07-02 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, That 'non-commercial' restriction pretty much prevents plugins with such logos to be included in Linux distributions though. At least it makes the package non-free. That's fine by me. A non-free collection with permission by the logo owners would be a major improvement over the current

Re: [vdr] Anyone having contacts to ZDF? (Re: TV channel logo collection)

2008-07-02 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Hanno Zulla wrote: Hi, So far, noone turned down the request and I have collected a critical mass of logos within a few days: http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Logo_Collection [...] I applaud the effort, and IANAL, but with all due respect, are you

Re: [vdr] Anyone having contacts to ZDF? (Re: TV channel logo collection)

2008-07-02 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hi, I applaud the effort, and IANAL, but with all due respect, are you certain that the license agreement draft says what you intend? Yes. For example, the non-commercial word is problematic. GPL _allows_ commercial distribution, and removing that possiblity makes your license

Re: [vdr] Anyone having contacts to ZDF? (Re: TV channel logo collection)

2008-07-02 Thread Hanno Zulla
Hanno Zulla schrieb: non-free download To clarify: non-GPL download (non-free in the sense of Debian). Regards, Hanno ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr