mail@...2227... wrote:

Hi Vangelis,

thanks for your quick answer. I know the GPL Version 2. Is the logo licensed under the same license model?

Hi Uwe

Sorry, I don't know the status of the logo.

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mail@...2227... wrote:

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Hi all,

i need some help. I wrote a book and now i would like to put the inkscape logo on the cover of the book. Is it allowed to do so? What do i have to observe?

My second question: I would like to put the program on an CD with the book. Can i do this too?

Inkscape is distributed under GPL version 2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

For distribution without modifications read sections 1,2,3 of GNU General Public License, version 2. Section 3 tells you what to do - provided you follow section 1 and 2.

If you've never read the license before, I suggest reading the whole thing anyway. You need to understand what the license, of the program you are going to distribute, is about.

Regards Vangelis Katsikaros

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On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 13:36 +0000, Nicolas Dufour wrote:

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From: "mail@...2227..." <mail@...2227...> Is the logo licensed under the same license model?

I've had the same question some times ago. See: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-logo-license-td22659124.html#a22696315 http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-logo-Public-Domain--Can%27t-be-right.-td21323...

There's also a bug report about it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/345778

Ted, do you have some news?

No news really. I sat down with the lawyer from the SFLC at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit and went through some ideas on what we wanted to see in the Trademark agreement (basically, use it to represent Inkscape and we're cool) and she was taking it back to lawyer it up before sending it to the board for their comments/approval. She hasn't gotten back to me yet on that, I'll ping her again.

--Ted

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 14:32 +0200, mail@...2227... wrote:

Hi,

i've some news.

There is a logo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inkscape_logo_2.svg from the author Andy Fitzsimon. I wrote him an email and got an answer.

"You have my unlimited permission to use the inkscape logo for all things related to the inkscape vector graphics editor. no written permission is needed. In-fact, you didn't even need to ask me :)

Thanks for the email.

Andy"

Maybe that's helpful for this case, but i heared about a new logo: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/inkscap...

and so i don't know if its really helpful.

I think that the real question is as follows: "Who is the original author or authors of the original inkscape logo?" They would probably be able to answer this question once and for all. Realistically, anything else is a derivative work and generally the way things go with licensing, the license of the original can determine whether the derivatives are even kosher to begin with.

Can anyone tell us who created the first inkscape logo? If no one knows, someone should start digging back in the devel mailing list and cvs mailing list archives (even the initial commit messages) to see if it can be determined.

Cheers, Josh

On 2/9/09 09:19, ~suv wrote:

first commits for Inkscape logo (png, svg, ico) (after 'Un-sodipodified the tree'): Tue Nov 11 06:05:54 2003 http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape?view=rev&,revision=213

sorry - that link got mangled: correct version http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape?view=rev&revision=213

Tue Nov 11 06:17:28 2003 http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape?view=rev&revision=214

first Inkscape png logo: http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/trunk/inkscape/inkscape.png?view=markup&pathrev=213 revision log for inkscape.png http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/trunk/inkscape/inkscape.png?view=log&pathrev=213

~suv

On 1/9/09 14:32, mail@...2227... wrote:

There is a logo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inkscape_logo_2.svg from the author Andy Fitzsimon.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/345778: comment #4

seems that MenTaLguY is likely someone how remembers who designed the original logo (the one Andy Fitzsimon based his "The Inkscape logo has been re-aligned" http://andy.brisgeek.com/archives/18 work on: see bug #181506 “Inkscape Logo "swoosh" looks awkward over dark backgrounds” which has some information about the history of the Inkscape logo...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/181506 comment #4:

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MenTaLguY wrote on 2008-01-09:

Speaking as (one of) the original designers, the original intent was that the little "swoosh"/"smile" was a white highlight reflecting off the wet ink, rather than being knocked out of the mountain. [...]

hth, ~suv