[ migrated from -vote to -legal; ionutz, i've cc'ed you too because i don't know if you're on the list. ]
> About modifying the logos now: > I am curious on one thing: if I can modify the liberal one, I can make > it look like the official one. For the swirl: I remove the botle and > make the swirl bigger; for the seals: add an Earth. These are modified > versions of the liberal. Seems a bit confusing to me. well, ianal, but i think if i modified the liberal logo to be the official logo, it would be the official logo (and thus ripping off our artwork w/o following the licence). in the same way, if i modify my bsd-licence code by inserting the entirety of gnu emacs, i have to put the result under the gpl (because it is an emacs derivative, no matter what i "started" with). or from another perspective, what if i just drew a copy of the official logo (or the m$ logo, or whatever) with my own pen? it'd still be illegal, because it's the picture that's copyrighted, not the bits (this is in contrast to software, where if i wrote my own copy of emacs from scratch, and could prove i had done so, i could distribute it as proprietary software). hth, hand. --phouchg "For a price I'd do about anything, except pull the trigger: for that I'd need a pretty good cause" -- Queensryche, "Revolution Calling" PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~phouchg/pgpkey.txt
