New logo design - license?

[Emanuele Aina]

Matt Mackall confermò:

>> 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.

As this is a logo, it depends more heavily on the appearance of the 
font, so it may be not so obvious.

But in this case I wouldn't really care too much. :)

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