Questions tagged [logos]
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How do open source licences affect the incorporation of copyright / trademark logos names in a project?
When a private corporation decides to publish software under a permissive open source licence (for example, the MIT licence) there might still be a desire for that company's name and logo to be ...
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Should the artwork attributed to third-parties and the derivatives of it be assumed proprietary or GPL in GPL software?
I want to reuse with attribution (and publish) a raster graphics file from GPL software. At the moment, I consider reusing either the software icon file or the software logo file. The latter is a part ...
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What is the official logo for the MIT License?
I'm wanting to find a way to indicate visually, as shorthand, that certain projects I'm publishing fall under one license or another. On the actual GitHub page for each project, the full license name ...
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Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic image derivative as organization logo
Could a derivative work of this image be used as a logo for an organization, without violating the terms of the CC-BY-SA-2.5, especially when considering trademark infringement?
Per Wikipedia's ...
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Who owns the rights to a logo contributed to an open-source project?
I recently designed a logo for an MIT-licensed open-source project.
That same open-source project has now launched a commercial offering under the same name (just using a .com instead of .org) domain,...
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Open Source License that requires commercial users to contribute
I want to start an open source project that will provide ready-to-use business logos for use in mapping products. Part of the challenge here is that logos are trademarked and cannot be used without ...
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Can I use Google's Safe Browsing logo?
I'm using Google's Safe Browsing API. I want to put their logo on the bottom of my input form so that people know I'm using the API. However, I'm not sure if it is legal.
On the bottom of the page it ...
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Can I use Apache software logos without explicit permission in my slides?
According to Apache Trademark Policy page, I can use Apache feather logo in my slides without asking permissions.
You needn't ask us for permission to use the Apache feather logo (the version ...
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Company logo in an MIT licensed project [duplicate]
I want to release a project under the MIT license. Among the source files there is a png with the company logo. I would like to specify that that logo cannot be included in any of the derivative works....
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Use Apache 2.0 license or AGPLv3 licensed Software
I want to sell a custom piece of Hardware with my own company's name with an Ubuntu Server 16.0.4 LTS on it. Is that allowed?
I want to run on this server an Apache 2.0 licensed or AGPLv3 licensed ...
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Do I retain right to my extension's logo if I use MIT Licence in my Firefox extension?
I created a Firefox extension and put its code on GitHub. The code includes the logo of my extension for use as its icon. I created the that logo myself.
I want to build my portfolio and thus want to ...
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How should I license my project's logo?
For my OSS project, is it a good idea to release the "brand assets" under a CC license?
I want to make it easy for people to use the logo for blogs/articles talking about the product and derivatives ...
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Can I use the logo of the R statistical package on my webpage?
I am a statistical programmer. As a SAS certified programmer, I can put the SAS logo on my website. I would like to also display the R logo, because many clients want programming in R. Does anyone ...
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Does being open sourced mean others can use my logo?
Suppose
I have created an open source application
I have also created a snazzy logo to go with the application (for example, the Eclipse logo)
I released my application's source code under a ...
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