On jeudi 18 juillet 2019 11:15:57 CEST Daniel Mensinger wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 08:45:55 +0200 > > Christophe Giboudeaux <christo...@krop.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On mercredi 17 juillet 2019 23:09:13 CEST Daniel Mensinger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am forwarding my original question about the meson trademark / > > > license to kde-devel because I was told that more people with > > > licensing experience will see this here. > > > > > > > Meson's logo is (C) Jussi Pakkanen and used by the Meson project with > > > > specific permission. It is not licensed under the same terms as the > > > > rest > > > > of the project. > > > > > > > > If you are a third party and want to use the Meson logo, you must > > > > first > > > > must obtain written permission from Jussi Pakkanen. > > > > > > Jussi Pakkanen has no problem with giving a special permission for > > > KDevelop (similar to the VS Code meson plugin), but I first would > > > like to know if including an icon with such a "license" is OK for > > > KDevelop. > > > > This doesn't give any information on the logo license and what it allows/ > > restricts/forbids. Answering your question is impossible without the > > license text. > > This IS the complete license > (http://mesonbuild.com/legal.html#meson-logo-licensing). There is nothing > more besides that for the icon. Some of the discussion about this cah also > be found here: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/4925
Well, it talks about different terms but don't list them, I suggest avoiding this logo. This is too vague, you have no idea if you're allowed to distribute this logo with your software or if it's just for your personal use. You also don't know if the permission can be granted to an organization (KDE e.V. shall be the one getting this "written" permission). If you need an example why this shall be avoided, look at this csound report: https://github.com/csound/csound/issues/1148. Neither downstream or upstream are allowed to distribute this software without removing these files. Christophe
