FireFox logo on Wikipedia user pages

Posted by Celestianpower on Thu, 12/29/2005 - 15:53Licensing Issues

I know this has come up before but, on Wikipedia, all our content has to be released into the GDFL (or lesser lisense), otherwise it cannot be included. There are certain instances <i>in articles</i> (like the one about Mozilla FireFox) where we can claim fair use on certain images under United States copyright law (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fair_use for details)

Now, my dilemna is that, as the Firefox logo is fully copyrighted, we cannot display it on userpages, hereby, we are not able to fully advertise your wonderful browser there. This is a problem for myself and other users.

 Is there a possibility that you could release at least a version of the logo under a free liscense (GDFL, public domain, Creatve Commons ...etc...) so that we can advertise properly on our userpages?

 Thank you for listening.


 


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Ask.....Jamey
Submitted by Applemac299 on Sun, 01/01/2006 - 05:17.

You know I dont know if you could use the exact firefox logo or any thing but you might get Jamey "graphicsguru" to see if he can make one that wont have such strict rules.  But I dont know i will ask him to visit this blog for you. 

Ethan

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Answers To Qustions
Submitted by Applemac299 on Mon, 01/02/2006 - 17:46.

Jamey says that we should all have a look at
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/3064
He has just resently updated it.

Ethan

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Related discussion
Submitted by Celestianpower on Thu, 12/29/2005 - 15:55.

 See the related discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:User_firefox

Celestianpower - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Celestianpower

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