[Nix-dev] Nix Logo license

Tomasz Czyż tomasz.czyz at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 22:31:37 CEST 2016


I wrote to Tim as I would like to start doing some t-shirts, stickers etc
as well.
I would like to do this as a part of nix popularisation (which is part of
NixOS Dublin meetup).



2016-10-02 21:27 GMT+01:00 Graham Christensen <graham at grahamc.com>:

> FWIW the nixos logo may be copy written and licensed, but as a logo is
> more of a trademark can be used more liberally.
>
> I wonder if this conversation is sparked out of me making stickers?
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:23 PM Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Bumping the topic. Would be much much easier to use those kind of stuff
>> if the situation is completely clear.
>>
>> 2016-10-02 7:49 GMT+01:00 Tim Cuthbertson <tim at gfxmonk.net>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thomasz recently asked about the Nix logo license, and when I searched I
>> noticed there had been another question about this a few months ago on the
>> mailing list (which I missed).
>>
>> Apologies for not addressing this sooner, I agree that we should be
>> explicit about the logo license. I'm happy to go along with pretty much
>> whatever the nix project prefers (CC-BY has already been suggested), and if
>> there's some official nix project entity which could be credited, I'd be
>> happy to assign copyright there too (so you could just credit e.g. the nix
>> foundation, not me specifically).
>>
>> @edolstra: are you happy with a CC-BY license for the logo? I'm holding
>> off from _actually_ declaring it yet in case you'd prefer to restrict
>> derivatives or something, but if I don't hear back from you within a week
>> I'll assume that CC-BY is fine :). And if you are happy with CC-BY, could
>> you go ahead and declare that on the website / repo somewhere so we have it
>> in writing for anyone else that comes looking?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Tim.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tomasz Czyż
>>
>


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Tomasz Czyż
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