Hi Friends, I've been trying to read about licenses, and trying to figure out if I could use the Inkscape_Logo2_1_1.png icon, as a link on my forum (http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?action=forum) directly to the Download page (https://inkscape.org/en/download/). Inkscape_Logo2_1_1.png is the icon with the big green down arrow, on this page https://inkscape.org/en/download/windows/. But the language with the licenses is hard for me to understand. I guess the Inkscape logo by itself is ok to use, as far as I understand the Inkscape Trademark Policy (https://inkscape.org/en/about/trademark-policy/). But I'm not sure if the download icon on the website might be a different case. (A software could be open source, but it's website *could* still be copyrighted. I'm just not exactly sure about Inkscape's. There's no copyright statement on the website, but like some other things(CoC for gallery comments), maybe it's just not be written yet.) I think I could use the Inkscape logo and add a slightly different green arrow myself. But using the download icon from the website, I'm just not sure about. Would someone clear me up about that, in a not too technical way?
Thank you very much, brynn
Hi Brynn,
the Inkscape Logo is CC-By-SA, meaning it's licensed under a copyleft licence that says you need to say who made it, and if you make changes, and you publish them, you need to put the derivative work under the same licence.
So the download icon is a derivative of the original logo, and thus, has the same licence.
You must mention the original author (Andrew Michael Fitzsimon) and the licence (CC-By-SA 3.0) (most easily done via title attribute).
I don't think there's any interference with the trademark guidelines - but I'm no expert there.
The corresponding bug report is this one, btw.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1472287
Kind regards, Maren
Am 18.08.2015 um 21:06 schrieb Brynn:
Hi Friends, I've been trying to read about licenses, and trying to figure out if I could use the Inkscape_Logo2_1_1.png icon, as a link on my forum (http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?action=forum) directly to the Download page (https://inkscape.org/en/download/). Inkscape_Logo2_1_1.png is the icon with the big green down arrow, on this page https://inkscape.org/en/download/windows/. But the language with the licenses is hard for me to understand. I guess the Inkscape logo by itself is ok to use, as far as I understand the Inkscape Trademark Policy (https://inkscape.org/en/about/trademark-policy/). But I'm not sure if the download icon on the website might be a different case. (A software could be open source, but it's website *could* still be copyrighted. I'm just not exactly sure about Inkscape's. There's no copyright statement on the website, but like some other things(CoC for gallery comments), maybe it's just not be written yet.) I think I could use the Inkscape logo and add a slightly different green arrow myself. But using the download icon from the website, I'm just not sure about. Would someone clear me up about that, in a not too technical way?
Thank you very much, brynn
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Thanks Maren. A lot of good info there!
All best, brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Maren Hachmann" <maren@...3112...> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 1:41 PM To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] license for icons on website
Hi Brynn,
the Inkscape Logo is CC-By-SA, meaning it's licensed under a copyleft licence that says you need to say who made it, and if you make changes, and you publish them, you need to put the derivative work under the same licence.
So the download icon is a derivative of the original logo, and thus, has the same licence.
You must mention the original author (Andrew Michael Fitzsimon) and the licence (CC-By-SA 3.0) (most easily done via title attribute).
I don't think there's any interference with the trademark guidelines - but I'm no expert there.
The corresponding bug report is this one, btw.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1472287
Kind regards, Maren
Am 18.08.2015 um 21:06 schrieb Brynn:
Hi Friends, I've been trying to read about licenses, and trying to figure out if I could use the Inkscape_Logo2_1_1.png icon, as a link on my forum (http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?action=forum) directly to the Download page (https://inkscape.org/en/download/). Inkscape_Logo2_1_1.png is the icon with the big green down arrow, on this page https://inkscape.org/en/download/windows/. But the language with the licenses is hard for me to understand. I guess the Inkscape logo by itself is ok to use, as far as I understand the Inkscape Trademark Policy (https://inkscape.org/en/about/trademark-policy/). But I'm not sure if the download icon on the website might be a different case. (A software could be open source, but it's website *could* still be copyrighted. I'm just not exactly sure about Inkscape's. There's no copyright statement on the website, but like some other things(CoC for gallery comments), maybe it's just not be written yet.) I think I could use the Inkscape logo and add a slightly different green arrow myself. But using the download icon from the website, I'm just not sure about. Would someone clear me up about that, in a not too technical way?
Thank you very much, brynn
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