On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 22:18 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
I think the first thing that we need to determine is who owns them now.
Well, who came up with them isn't necessarily quite the same as who "owns" them, from the perspective of a trademark, which is effectively what we need to be thinking about here.
The name, I'm pretty sure that's Mental's.
I came up with it, yes.
The logo, I think there is probably a few people owning Copyright there. I remember coming into IRC and Mental showing me the logo, but I don't really know what went on before that. Also, with the latest revamp of the logo, who did that? Was it Andy?
All four of us worked on the logo; Andy, Bryce and I did the revamp.
Also, I hope that I didn't offend anyone by suggesting it was okay to use the logo when I don't have any claims of copyright of the work. I didn't mean to -- I'm just excited about the idea of having a printed Inkscape work (in English -- the French one was cool at LGM, but not useful to me)
Again, it's really an issue of trademark (if anything) rather than copyright.
We probably do need to think about asserting trademark on the name and logo, probably with some permissive policy as Linus has done for the Linux trademark.
One thing we would need to show is that we are using the trademark in commerce somehow, at least in a token way.
-mental