New logo design - license?

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:55 +0000, TK Soh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Peer Sommerlund
> <peer.sommerlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14/02/2008, Zingo Andersen <spamfilter at zingo.org> wrote:
> > > Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > > I've basically decided on a new logo...
> > >
> > > Have you decided on a license.
> > >
> > > [cut] I assume the other tools have the same question.
> >
> > I would like to take a stab at a new TortoiseHg logo, based on the new
> > Mercurial logo.
> >
> > I hope that the license allows this kind of derivative work?
> 
> IIRC, Matt has requested the logos to carry GPL during earlier round
> of logo contest. So, it'd be reasonable to assume that the new
> Mercurial logo is GPL'ed too?

Yes, it's GPLed. I'll check it in momentarily.

There is an interesting note here with regard to fonts. The font used is
licensed under Creative Commons attribution license. Using an
open-source font was a requirement for future tweaking. The question
then arises "does using the font here constitute making a derived work,
thus creating an issue of the compatibility of CC and GPL licenses." And
I'd have to say the answer is obviously no, otherwise you'd never be
able to print anything except with public domain fonts.

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