New Splash Screen Graphic

[Charles Day]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <
andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:48:59AM -0700, Charles Day wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <
> > >
> > > +1 ^ 2
> > >
> >
> > Is it OK to have the names of well-known companies in the graphics? Any
> > issue with the artist putting a credit in the text? (At least it is quite
> > subtle.)
>
> Charles, good eye. I withdraw my +1^2 pending the removal of
> recognizable proprietary trademarks. I personally have no problem with
> the artists name in the text. It is no different than the copyright
> notices in the preambles to source code, IM(very uneducated)O.
>

The artist's name is fine with me too, but I figured it was something to ask
about.


> That said, and based on his other post in this thread, I suspect
> the artist doesn't realize what it means to release his art to the
> project. Tynan, perhaps you should read up on these licenses.
>

I was wondering, even with the artist's GPL, if it was possible to use
copyrighted or trademarked names or whatever in the artwork. I don't pretend
to understand the "fair use" stuff. Is there any issue with the several
images of which this collage is composed? Are they licensed clip art? Or
from a free source?

I do like the clean look of it. On the old one, the Gnu bucks were kind of
humorous though.


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-Charles