On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christophe Combelles wrote: >> Jens Vagelpohl a écrit : >> On 1/24/10 13:08 , Baiju M wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I would like to know the legal formalities required >>>>> to accept a logo (with special font). >>>>> Also I would like to know the same for web design. >>>>> >>>>> Is there any guideline for Zope Foundation ? >>>>> >>>>> BlueBream team want to use a logo designed by an external person: >>>>> http://muthukadan.net/bluebream/bluebream-logo-v1.png >>>>> The font used there (Perizia: >>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perizia_fonts) is >>>>> designed by the same designer and released under GPL. >>>>> >>>>> One of my friend has offered a web design for the site (not done yet). >> All that's perfectly fine. As Andreas said, there are no guildelines, as >> long as you are not using material that's already trademarked and >> copyrighted. >> >>> maybe just be sure the original author won't claim anything in the future? >>> ie. the logo should be released with a free licence. Just to avoid the kind >>> of >>> troubles we had with new.zope.org >> >> Using a GPL font for the logo surely won't force us to abandon the ZPL, >> no reason for concern there. The logo is nice, by the way. > > Fonts and the GPL are complicated[1]. As that essay notes, under U.S. > copyright law, the "look" of a font cannot be copyrighted, which ought > to mean that an image which contains pixels derived from rendering the > font is not a derived work of the font: it doesn't contain a copy or > transformation of anything copyrightable. > > However, the issue gets muddy, even before you consided non-U.S. law. > So, before checking the image into the zope.org SVN repository (which > forbids any GPL'ed content without explicit approval), please check to > see that the font author has used the FSF's standard "font exception" > clause[2]: > > As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, > and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the > document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to > be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not > however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered > by the GNU General Public License. > > If not, ask for the author to include that clause in the license for the > font (and document that to the foundation board, if the exception is not > published with the version of the font you use). Or ask for a more > permissive (non-copyleft) licence, such as one of the Creative Commons > licenses. If neither of those options is available, then I would ask > the foundation board for permission to check in the image. > > > [1] http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis > [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
The font is "Released under GNU GPL v3, with font exception." (from font file) http://hiraneffects.blogspot.com/2008/03/thanks-perizia-is-now-font.html?showComment=1205148360000#c7861527171323151625 Regards, Baiju M _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )