Have a copyright statement regarding druplicon

i completely disagree. i think that if drupal is gpl'd it makes no sense whatsoever to copyright the icon. if we're moving in this direction, then we're moving away from free and to corporatization.

in addition, copies of the icon are included with the drupal distribution with is a GPL package. if the license was changed, it would no longer be distributed as a GPL'd distro. also because its already been distributed as GPL, you can't simply revoke the license. you can relicense it, but the people who have already got a copy can do whatever they want with it.

we need a license for work other than code as well. we need ip rights to give the rights away, same as the gpl is working. dont forget, if we dont have add a copyright notice with what you can do with the logo (hence: a very friendly copyright notice) then normal copyright laws apply. and in those normal copyright laws, it is illegal to use the druplicon logo without the permission of steven

so i am saying we need a copyright statement to give the copyrights away.

good point that images are included in packages with is gpl, but i dont think the gpl applys to images. of it does then the solution is as easy as stating that the druplicon images are avail under the gpl. if images cant be under a gpl we need a license that is exact the same.

yeah actually you are right. by copyright, i meant a license which was not open. but i do think that attrib 2.0 is what we're using for the handbook. that as a standard i think is a good practice. leaving it as-is however, leaves those images as open to use. distributing it as a part of a GPL package confirms this. IANAL though.

The handbook is CC-Attribution/Share-Alike or CC-by-sa.

http://drupal.org/node/14307

This is the CC license most similar to the GPL. I think it makes sense to use that for the handbook and all art, but this issue was recently discussed on the themes list and the decision was "just leave it GPL"

http://lists.drupal.org/archives/themes/2006-05/msg00051.html

I first commented here: http://drupal.org/node/57300#comment-142340 and just found this thread.

From what I understand from reading the TERMS.txt, all files comitted to the repository are GPL. I didn't see any exception for the logo, so may I assume it's also GPL?

This definitely needs some clarification. Debian has two logos for example, http://www.debian.org/logos/

Mozilla has a trademark too, and so http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html

it is well documented that the druplicon is under gpl. closing this one