[fab] Fedora wallpapers and legal reuse of mark

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

This, to me, is a perfect example of why we *need* two marks: the free 
Fedora mark and the protected Fedora mark.

Strictly speaking, what Diana has done, in releasing all of these 
wallpapers as CC-BY-NC-ND, is *not even legal* in cases where they are 
derived from the Fedora logo -- is it?

If we had a Free Fedora Mark, then we could dual-license the mark *itself*
as CC Attribution/ShareAlike, and then Red Hat owned.  That way, RH would
be free to use the Free Fedora Mark for any purpose, but any other
wallpapers/backgrounds/anything else would *have* to be released CC-BY-SA.

And then we're more careful with the Protected mark.

Because here's the thing: until we do this, no one will ever be able to do 
anything cool with the Fedora mark, ever.  And I think that sucks.

--g

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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:24:29 +0100
From: Dimitris Glezos <dimitris at glezos.com>
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To: Discussions on expanding the Fedora user base
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Subject: Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Fedora Wallpapers

O/H Nicolas Mailhot έγραψε:
> Le dimanche 09 juillet 2006 à 11:35 +0530, Tejas Dinkar a écrit :
>> Hey, I was reading dfong's blog, and I found she has made a huge
>> collection of brilliant Fedora Wallpapers, that are liscenced under the
>> Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License
> 
> ...
> 
>> My question is, should/do we have a page on the wiki dedicated to stuff
>> like this?
> 
> IMHO as long as the licensing is compatible, it should all end in a
> fedora-extras package

I believe that the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License of 
Diana's work is not compatible because of the Non commercial and No 
derivatives clauses.

We could ask her to consider dual-licencing the wallpapers under the FDL 
or something compatible.

-Dim


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