[Fwd: License of Mercurial logo]

[Matt Mackall]

[cc:ing to -devel]

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:02 +0200, Bastian Doetsch wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> as I haven't had any response on the mailing list, I'd like to ask you
> directly - I'm now pretty confident, the logo applies to GPL2, so the
> question is if there's a chance for us to use the droplet icon. A
> simple no from you guys would be okay for me, but I'd actually prefer
> to use the Mercurial logo to make it visually clear that the Eclipse
> integration is all about Mercurial.

I'm still deciding how best to do this. I'd like to make the license for
the logo extremely permissive, but avoid abuses. Perhaps something like
the following (DRAFT):

In addition to use under the GPLv2, the Mercurial logo in
logo-droplets.svg may freely used and adapted by projects providing
Mercurial integration and support so long as those projects do not
violate Mercurial's licensing terms.

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