SVG files in the wiki

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 28 17:12:48 UTC 2008


Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Máirín Duffy wrote:
>> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>> One of the awesome features in MediaWiki is its ability to display 
>>> SVG graphics, poth in the special image pages and embedded anywhere, 
>>> like this:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fedora_logo.svg
>>
>> Aughh!!! My question is WHY is there an SVG logo of the Fedora logo on 
>> wikipedia??
> 
> Heh! I linked to that specific image on purpose, wondering if anyone 
> will ask about trademarks :p
> 
> I believe you noticed their disclaimer about trademark and the link to 
> Fedora trademark guidelines and policies. IANL, so don't know if this is 
> good enough but I imagine the possible outcome of a take down request.


I don't think an SVG is necessary for fair use in terms of a wiki 
article about Fedora. Would they be terribly upset if we proposed 
switching it out for a nice PNG?

~m




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