On 2004-09-24 04:55:12 +0100 Rachel Hamilton-Williams <rachel@katipo.co.nz> wrote:
like the koha logo are restricted use and most of the koha site is the default copyright (all rights reserved), as far as I can tell. You what?
You're more than welcome to use the Koha logo etc - they are on the site for download (the links to them seem to disapear with alarming regularity but sorting that is Mikes new job :-)
On http://koha.org/developers/ it says "You are welcome to download and use these logos/graphics for the promotion and publicity of the Koha Library System. You may not use them for any other purpose." That is a restriction on field of use, which conflicts with things like the debian free software guidelines: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines (guideline 6).
And that's why I put the presentation and print materials up there http://www.koha.org/about/brochure.html http://www.koha.org/about/presentation/index.html So you can use the content of them.....
I only see permission to reprint the 2002 brochure. Here, unless I have permission to do something to a copyrighted work, many acts infringe copyright, including taking the content and including it in my own work. Is NZ copyright very different?
That's very annoying when making publicity materials at short notice and part of the motive for my Koha England microsite: anyone can use its text, although I like being credited. Right - I quite deliberatly don't say anywhere on the site that it is "owned" by Katipo - there is no Katipo logo or copyright statement claiming ownership by Katipo. You are free to use it (and put stuff on it too if you want) as long as it's for the koha project.
If that's what you want, you should say it. If I remember it correctly, in any Berne Union state, the author automatically gets copyright on a substantial creation. It says on the "Contact Us" page that the site is maintained by Katipo.
The "blobbies" have a licence with them that is just that they can't be resold - so you can use them too.
A lot of what I do these days involves commerce, so I avoid things with that restriction as much as possible.
What I didn't want to happen was that someone use the Koha site stuff for something not connected with koha, but anyone who is doing stuff with Koha is more than welcome to use logos, designs etc.
Personally, I'd be delighted to see koha-related materials like "introduction to libraries for sysadmins" reused for non-koha things. I think it makes it more likely that koha gets good publicity (from a credit on the materials if nothing else) and more likely that others will want to let us reuse their work. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know Creative copyleft computing - http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ LinuxExpo.org.uk village 6+7 Oct http://www.affs.org.uk