On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 11:39:07AM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
Hello. I try to package a software that shows the Lua logo in it.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1834280
The logo's license is:
Copyright © 1998 Lua.org. Graphic design by Alexandre Nakonechnyj.
Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or
royalty fees, to use, copy, and distribute this logo for any purpose, including
commercial applications, subject to the following conditions:
- The origin of this logo must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that
you drew the original logo.
- The only modification you can make is to adapt the orbiting text to your
product name.
- The logo can be used in any scale as long as the relative proportions of its
elements are maintained.
---end---
Clearly, this does not allow modifications, but do we have some
exceptions for branding? Or do I need to strip the logo out of the
package?
My thoughts are that the logo should be removed from the package. My thinking
is it puts an unnecessary burden on users of Fedora who want to rebuild and
remix. The logo is not condition-free in the context that most people would
be expecting from a project like Fedora.
It basically begins like an attribution-type license like a BSD license but
then has very specific restrictions on what you can do and even those do not
read clearly to me. What is a product in this context? Do the terms carry
over to those who receive the redistribution from us? Can our modified logo
adapted for product text be under a different license?
--
David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT
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