what FOSS mascots are free and open?
what FOSS mascots are free and open?
Sunday, May 8, 2022 - 00:35
friends what characters associated with foss projects are licensed under free and open licenses?
friends what characters associated with foss projects are licensed under free and open licenses?
Are there FOSS mascots that aren't free and open? If so, how are they FOSS?
--Medicine Stormapparantly not all foss mascots are open content. i first found out about it many years ago while reading a discussion about having beastie on freedoom. accoriding to one of the developers the character is proprietary. wikipedia seems to agree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon#Copyright
iirc the tuxkart folks also mention they got a special persmission for beastie on their character page
oh, wow. ok, I am interested as well, because I don't know the answer for any of the mascots, then.
--Medicine Stormfor comparison kiki is said to be licensed as cc-by sa and gnu gpl in the official krita page
https://krita.org/en/about/kiki/
the kde mascots also appear to be open content
https://community.kde.org/Promo/Material/Mascots
i am not sure about tux, the description referenced below sounds like attribution is all that is needed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)#cite_note-12
tuz however is confirmed to be ccby sa here
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/...