mail@...2227... wrote:

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.

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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 11:07 +0200, mail@...2227... wrote:

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?

I asked the same question two years ago for my book. The Inkscape board endorsed the use for my book*... but there is the question of who actually owns the copyright (and can thus legally give permission). There have been several versions made with contributions from several people.

In answer to another similar request, in a Mar 25th 2009 email on inkscape-devel, Ted Gould states:

"So, from a legal perspective, it's unclear. But, I think (IANAL), that as long as you use the logo in good faith to promote and improve the Inkscape project you'll not run into any problems."

My book does have the logo on the cover. So far no lawyers have come knocking at the door.

Tav

* See the inkscape-board mailing list archives July, 2007.

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.

Sincerely

Uwe Schoeler

Ted Gould <ted@...11...> hat am 1. September 2009 um 05:16 geschrieben:

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

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.

the new icons came from http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=406 - at least those are used on OS X: see commit log at http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/packaging/macosx/Resources/Inkscape.icns?view=log

~suv

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