[Nix-dev] Nix Logo license

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Mon Oct 3 17:48:40 CEST 2016


Hi Tim,

On 10/02/2016 08:49 AM, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:

> 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? 

CC-BY sounds great to me, thanks!

> 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?

Done, see
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/commit/525ade227e23f2b54975021553eeb3c6b57c04bd.

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