[Trad Gnu] Re: Urgent: using the GNU 30th logo on a t-shirt

[Ineiev <ineiev AT gnu.org>]

Hello, Luca;

On 09/08/2013 10:18 PM, Luca Saiu wrote:
> I'm trying to have custom t-shirts made for the Paris anniversary
> celebration, which will be earlier than the others.
>
> I'd like to use a modified version of a translation of the gnu30 banner;
> the translated version is:
> http://listes.april.org/wws/arc/trad-gnu/2013-09/msg00009/gnu-30-1.fr.svg
>
> I've tentatively adapted it into this image:
> http://ageinghacker.net/gnu30-scratch/gnu-30-1.fr-t-shirt.svg
>
> Now, the problem is that CC BY-SA 2.0 requires attribution, and a line
> of legal notices would look pretty ugly on a t-shirt.  By the way, I
> can't even find an explicit author mentioned anywhere, so the notice
> doesn't seem very useful anyway.

Empty attribution is still an attribution IMVHO.

> For these reasons, I'd ask you to please let me use a derivative work of
> your design for printing on t-shirts, without attribution.  I need the
> permission of the author of the original design on gnu.org, and the
> French translator -- whoever they are.  If I don't get that, I'll need
> to add some ugly small text somewhere, polluting a very clean design.
>
> Of course I have no problems publishing an electronic copy somewhere
> with full legal notices.

CCing Zak Rogoff who submitted the banner to webmasters.