Re: The right license for logos and trademarks in a free software project

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On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Sheogorath wrote:
> I came to you, to ask about the right way to license a logo and Name
> properly as part of a free software project. We, the Project
> Hedgedoc[1] (formally known as CodiMD), are currently working on
> rebranding the whole thing to solve some name conflicts. As part of
> this we just created a new logo, came up with the name, etc. and we
> were wondering what's the right license for those works. GNU and the
> free software foundation, as well as OSI have guides for Source code,
> documentation and alike, but I couldn't find any resources on things
> like Logos and Names.

Logos might fall under "content" rather than code. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Content_Licenses

Unlike with code, we permit licenses for content which restrict modification
as long as that is the only restriction.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora Project Leader
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