Peter,
I used the Creative Commons licensing form that John Cowan suggested and placed
the license texts within the image source directory:
http://joshuagriffith.com/chicken/logo/license.html
http://joshuagriffith.com/chicken/logo/license.txt
Will this work for you?
-Josh
On Jun 5, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 03:47:21PM -0500, Joshua Griffith wrote:
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> I never put much thought into it and simply wanted to give the logo to the
>> community.
>> Perhaps it's a good idea to make that explicit. Let me know what license
>> would be most convenient and I'll release it under that license.
>
> I'd say one of the CC licenses would probably be the most
> straightforward, but I'd of course also like to know what others in
> the community think.
>
> Wikipedia is very restrictive in the types of licenses they allow:
>
> They don't accept works that don't allow commercial use or that forbid
> derivative works, so one of: CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA would be fine.
> Using the Free Art license is also allowed. Putting it in the public
> domain is also sort-of allowed. They don't allow GFDL-only licensed
> stuff anymore.
>
>> Of course, if Wikipedia requires specific permission from me to upload the
>> logo, you have it.
>
> Thank you. They're mostly concerned with redistribution and
> modification ("remixing") by third parties though.
>
> The full story:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Copyright_and_licensing
>
> Their docs are confusing, contradictory and just generally hairy.
> Sorry to drag you into this bullshit :(
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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