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No Explicit License for Images in "assests" directory #476
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@RichardLitt and @daviddias contributed all the images in the assests directory. Based off of LICENSING_POLICY.md, images and docs should be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC 4.0), but there isn't an explicit license for the art besides an MIT license, which typically isn't meant for non-code. I'd like to seek approval from both @RichardLitt and @daviddias to license their images under CC 4.0.
Some Background:
I was thinking about a logo for my project, Geo25rey/ipmail: InterPlanetary Mail - Decentralized Email alternative using IPFS, and I was thinking about incorporating the IPFS logo as part of my design. Is that allowed under CC 4.0?
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RichardLitt commentedon Mar 14, 2021
CC 4.0 works for me. Thanks.
Stebalien commentedon Mar 14, 2021
This is more an issue of trademark than copyright. I'm checking internally to see what our policy is.
In my experience, it's usually fine as long as (a) the project legitimately builds on IPFS in some way, (b) the use can't be confused with IPFS itself, and (c) doesn't try to claim any sort of official affiliation/collaboration with the IPFS project, Protocol Labs, etc. But I don't have the authority to give you permission to use it, so I'll get back to you when I have an official answer.
Geo25rey commentedon Mar 14, 2021
@Stebalien IPMail uses IPFS as a datastore and for a pubsub network. The hope is that typical users won't need to know that IPMail uses IPFS. I don't make any claims about the IPFS project or Protocol Labs any where in the application besides that it's a dependency.
Thanks for passing my request up the chain. If there is any private information that needs to discussed feel free to email me.