On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 8:44 AM Igor Raits
<ignatenkobrain(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 11:39 +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?
- From my non-lawyer perspective I think this is not really true.
I think you can modify logo as long as you say that you've used as a
base logo which was created by
Lua.org and you can do any modifications
to it. But if you change anything else than orbiting text or scale, you
must write that you've used original logo and you changed it the way
that it does not represent original Lua thing, but rather did something
on top of original logo create by
Lua.org.
I don't agree. The license is pretty clear: "The only modification you
can make ..." and the license is based on a FOSS license that includes
permission to modify
(
)
but the Lua logo license removes that permission.
Is the logo actually used in any way? It didn't seem to be on a cursory review.
Richard