Expansion: add lots of libre vendor/distro logos to PUA
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Ubuntu Font Family |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Malcolm Wooden |
Bug Description
Request forwarded on behalf of George Brooke: http://
"And how about a circle of friends glyph somewhere (in the private use area if I understand what thats for correctly) could used as an easter egg in ubuntu-related websites maybe."
Ideally the Ubuntu Font Family would include a number of useful Free/open/libre software related labels where agreements can be made for their inclusion into the fonts *without impacting the DFSG freeness of the font*. The obvious ones are the:
Ubuntu "Circle of Friends", Kubuntu Cogs, Xubuntu Mouse, Debian Swirl, Canonical Roundel, ...
The Ubuntu Font Family will hopefully see use not just in Ubuntu, but across the whole of Free Software (and maybe beyond): I hope that it will be possible to include as many libre-related easter-eggs as possible: from Ewing Penguins and Chameleons, to Fedora infinity-signs and magic stars on an equal basis. Like other expansions of the coverage outside of the initial five scripts, these will be up to the libre font community to contribute with any necessary background, research (and possibly agreements in place).
Simple geometric logos are generally not copyrightable, and trademarks are based on how something being used.
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Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | later → 0.69 |
The new Kubuntu logo is, I believe, Copyright Roman Shtylman and distributed under a Creative Commons licence (as a derivative work of the new Ubuntu logo). As with other distro/vendor logos we would need to find a way of including these in the font that needed invoke the need for copyright assignment in all cases.