The contributor struggles to choose a licence and so I am because I am not experienced with design elements.
For a set of toolbar symbols I would choose MIT licences or CC0 (creative commons zero).
But for a unique application symbol I would like to disallow the re-use (meaning: modification) in other projects. And the project maintainers them self should be able to modify that logo (incl. its source file) without the original author. So the licence should be kind of free or open to us as project maintainers but not to people outside this project.
Is there a known licence for this?
Or does this point to an individual licence agreement between the project and the designer/contributor?
I would consider the artwork work-for-hire (pro-bono). The application project would hold the copyright and authorship and exclusive use. The designer would be listed as a project contributor.
The artwork was commissioned for, and not created independently of the project
The designer could have been paid or been an employee, but agreed to work pro-bono
The designer can be allowed by agreement to display the artwork in their portfolio as their work and contribution
Another option would have the designer retain authorship and copyright, but grant the project an exclusive-use license with rights to modify in perpetuity.
Might it be an option to keep the icons source file (SVG for example) private. The author gives the project or project members exclusive right (e.g. via an email text) to use it, modify it and also create derived works (as png/ico files) from it?
The open source projects public repository then only contains the png/ico files but not the SVG. And then maybe a simple CC licence for those logo files would solve (most) of the problems.
Beyond the Basics How to licence a project-specific software logo?
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Hello,
I am a FLOSS maintainer and not a designer. I am asking on behalf of one of my contributors who designed a logo/icon specific for this application. So it is not a set of toolbar symbols but a unique application symbol. See the original discussion and examples here: Use distinctive app icon for Back In Time (icon proposals) · Issue #215 · bit-team/backintime (github.com)
The contributor struggles to choose a licence and so I am because I am not experienced with design elements.
For a set of toolbar symbols I would choose MIT licences or CC0 (creative commons zero).
But for a unique application symbol I would like to disallow the re-use (meaning: modification) in other projects. And the project maintainers them self should be able to modify that logo (incl. its source file) without the original author. So the licence should be kind of free or open to us as project maintainers but not to people outside this project.
Is there a known licence for this?
Or does this point to an individual licence agreement between the project and the designer/contributor?
Best,
Christian
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I would consider the artwork work-for-hire (pro-bono). The application project would hold the copyright and authorship and exclusive use. The designer would be listed as a project contributor.
Another option would have the designer retain authorship and copyright, but grant the project an exclusive-use license with rights to modify in perpetuity.
NB: I'm not a lawyer, nor a designer.
I am still on that topic. ;)
Might it be an option to keep the icons source file (SVG for example) private. The author gives the project or project members exclusive right (e.g. via an email text) to use it, modify it and also create derived works (as png/ico files) from it?
The open source projects public repository then only contains the png/ico files but not the SVG. And then maybe a simple CC licence for those logo files would solve (most) of the problems.