Re: License of W3C icons

Hi Dimitri,

Le 3 mai 2014 à 02:07, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@debian.org> a écrit :
> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons into the resulting documents.
> Unfortunately that causes problems with licensing the resulting
> documentation, despite being open source documentation [1]  the
> ruslting document is non-free, since the above included icons appear
> to be non-free and non-modifiable.

What kind of issues **happened** (concrete examples with links would help understand).

> Can you please license those icons under a free license?

This is a question for the legal and communications team at W3C. I guess.

> For example are the icons at http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons covered
> by W3C Software Notice and License? [2]

So let's see, the first paragraph of this page links to
http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#icon
Which has a paragraph about 

    "Can I modify the existing icons to create my own?"
    No. The validator's icons are distributed under the 
    W3C document license, which allows distribution but 
    does not allow derivative works.

There is also a link to 
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/logo-usage-20000308.html


> There is no intention to modify official W3C logos,

This seems to contradict your second part…

> as indeed that
> would defeat the purpose and violate your trademark, but it would be
> great if the logos would be opensourced such that one can use them on
> the basis of creating derivative / unrelated to W3C trademark images
> etc.

… about creating derivative.


> Debian Operating system requires all its components to be
> modifiable, thus at the moment we have started to strip upstream
> software distributions from W3C logos and we are intending to not ship
> them on Debian.

Links to where this discussion is happening, I guess would help people in charge to understand the issue.


> Imho, it would be a shame to not be able to display W3C logos by
> default on Debian, and I hope that you can license your logos under a
> free licence, without compromising your registered trademark policy.
> 
> [1] open source defined as per https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> [2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231


Note that for example the HTML5 logo has a more permissive license.
http://www.w3.org/html/logo/faq.html#how-licenced


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Received on Monday, 5 May 2014 09:09:57 UTC