The copyright for the euro symbol belongs to the European Community, which for this purpose is represented by the European Commission. The Commission does not object to the use of the euro symbol, indeed it encourages the symbols use as a currency designator.
Publication by itself constitutes no license. Sincerely, Erkki I. Kolehmainen -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Puolesta Mahesh T. Pai Lähetetty: 20. heinäkuuta 2010 20:43 Vastaanottaja: [email protected] Aihe: Re: Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9) proposal - copyright/licencing issue Philippe Verdy said on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:09:05PM +0200,: (snipping out the statements about copyrights, open licensing, copyright, etc). You have a point there; the government of India needs to publish that design in their gazette. Till then, it is not a formal decision, AFAICT. And I suppose that publication in the gazette will be sufficient a "license". After all the European Commission does not claima a copyright on the euro sign, does it? And the new rupee sign is meant for use, not for hoarding or generating royalty income for the GoI. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet.
