logo license

[gastar]

Hello all,

under which license are the bitcoin images from the wiki?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Promotional_graphics

Can I use it for commercial products like a shirt?

Thanks

Gastar

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[joepie91]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Software =/= various community-created logo's.

[ribuck]

Satoshi explicitly released his golden-coin logos to the public domain, so you can do whatever you like with them.

Most artists who have created and disseminated Bitcoin logos are expecting people to use them.

[phatsphere]

Satoshi explicitly released his golden-coin logos to the public domain, so you can do whatever you like with them.

just my 0.02 cBTC: public domain is rather us-specific and for example it prohibits its use in countries like brazil where there is no way to surrender all legal rights and put it into public domain in that way. therefore licenses like http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ have been created to allow usage of such public-domain-like works in countries that have laws like brazil.

[joepie91]

Satoshi explicitly released his golden-coin logos to the public domain, so you can do whatever you like with them.

just my 0.02 cBTC: public domain is rather us-specific and for example it prohibits its use in countries like brazil where there is no way to surrender all legal rights and put it into public domain in that way. therefore licenses like http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ have been created to allow usage of such public-domain-like works in countries that have laws like brazil.

So wait, you have no right to surrender a right?

[ribuck]

So wait, you have no right to surrender a right?

In a very few countries, the surrender is not irrevocable. So you could announce that you have released something to the public domain, then ten years later you could say "Actually, from now on I would like to collect royalties."

It's trivially worked around by adding an implied license, e.g. "I release this to the public domain. Do whatever you like with it". Then you cannot successfully sue someone who did whatever they liked with it.