I've contacted several authors and most of them agreed to change the license to CC-by-NC, while one of the author's reply reminds me, that the copyright of the logos actually belong to those web2.0 companies. I have no idea if it is legal/free to use the logos at least just to represent the companies themselves.
For example, there is a quote from FriendFeed's TOS: "FriendFeed, the FriendFeed logo and the FriendFeed design are trademarks or trade dress of FriendFeed, and may not be used without express written permission from FriendFeed, other than for attribution. All other trademarks not owned by FriendFeed that appear on this Site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by FriendFeed." Since I'm not good at anything related to laws and not a native english speaker, I'm not sure if it means it's safe for me to just use the logo and say something similar like "the logo used in the plugin is the property of FriendFeed ..." in this case? On Sep 27, 10:09 pm, "Alex Launi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Peng Deng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What if the author won't change the license but give permission to use > > the > > icon? Will it be a problem? > > Yes, the icon is still non-free. > > > Seems currently the plugins are downloaded on demand so there will > > not > > be problems regarding packaging, will it? > > We do distribute plugins via an online repo, but we also have the ability to > use a local repo installed via a package. If the icon is non-free then it > cannot be packaged in a free software distro, and therefore cannot be > distributed. It's just a legal mess, use free icons, end of story. > > -- > --Alex Launi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
