[Zope-dev] Legal formalities to accept log and design

Baiju M mbaiju at zeomega.com
Tue Jan 26 22:33:51 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> Baiju M wrote:
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>> What about committing SVG (source)  file, so that others can modify
>> easily.
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> How doe the SVG source files interact with the (TrueType, I presume?)
> font file?

Font is TrueType, but I am not sure about how it is embedded in SVG.

>> BTW, logos comes under trademark law, which is different from
>> copyright law.  Or is it like the actual source files can be covered
>> under copyright, so that we can use a license based on copyright
>> law ?
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> Committers can't check in the GPL'ed font file itself to SVN without a
> waiver from the board, nor any files which count as "derived works" (and
> therefore must be GPL'ed),  unless the "derived work" is covered by the
> font exception.

I will only commit the SVG, PNG, ICO & JPEG formats, is that Ok ?

BTW, as I mentioned the font has "font exception".

Regards,
Baiju M


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