[Tango-artists] Use of Address Book SVG for MediaWiki Publisher

[Simon Pascal Klein]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:04 -0600, Bryan Petty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list, but have been a fan of the work done on the
> Tango Project for a long time now.
> 
> While I realize this isn't quite the intended use of the Tango Icons,
> I've recently put a logo together for the MediaWiki Publisher [1]
> project (an open source project) making use of some of the work done
> with the address book icon. I've attached the logo in question.
> 
> [1] http://mwpublisher.org/Main_Page
> 
> I just wanted to check with this list in regards to the legality of
> using this logo with the MediaWiki Tournesol logo [2] (which is
> released under the GNU FDL). Both the FDL and Creative Commons
> licenses require releasing derivatives under the same license, and
> they both don't really mix, so this may require that I have explicit
> permission from the copyright owner to use this, and release the
> derived logo under the FDL with the rest of the MWP project
> documentation and in accordance with the MediaWiki logo. It would also
> be easiest since the MWP project documentation is already under the
> FDL, and the license is already included.
> 
> [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Image:Tournesol.png
> 
> I also wanted to see what level of attribution (to the Tango Project)
> would be required to use this logo with the MWP project. I understand
> the Tango icons are released under an Attribution, Share-Alike CC
> license, and there is a requirement for attribution, but aside from
> the obvious attribution to be made in project documentation, there
> would be numerous places this logo would be used, and providing this
> attribution in each location would become cumbersome.
> 
> On one last note, I'm open to comments about the logo itself. :)

It looks great; nice work. (:
As for your questions, I doubt it would be a problem, though I am not
the creator of the icon.

-Pascak

> Regards,
> Bryan Petty
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