Forum:Orain Logo
Intro
It would be great if we could make fair use of the Orain logo. I see that the logo currently in use here is the one Kudu uploaded with the comment "This is a rough draft to be discussed and should NOT be used for any external or official purposes."
History
I have briefly discussed in IRC with Dusti the possibility of remixing the Orain logo for use on the BotWiki. This issue was also raised in my original wiki request and assent was given at that stage. I have emailed a draft of the remixed version to Dusti, giving full rights over my remix to Orain. If that remixed version could be uploaded to Commons by an Orain Steward, that would be helpful. Changing BotWiki's $wgLogo setting in LocalSettings.php could then be requested.
Problem statement
The Orain wiki farm has a general policy of not allowing users to upload images, prefering them to be uploaded to Commons. While this is a great idea, it leaves us users with the meddlesome burden of negotiating licensing issues with Commons. Technically, I cannot upload the Orain logo to Commons, because it is copyrighted to the creator of the image. In the file history it shows that the original version was uploaded by Dusti with the comment "Orain logo designed by User:Dusti. Copyright © Orain. Not CC-BY-SA." Such a restrictive license doesn't allow for remixing, which prevents me from uploading my remixed version to Commons, even though assent was given here.
Also, I'd like to include the Orain logo as part of my common Editnotice page, similar to my Editnotice on MWF projects (see example). To do this, I'd either need to be able to upload the Orain logo to all wikis in the Orain wiki farm (not likely to happen, right?) or access it from Commons.
Proposed solution
What I'd like to see is a copy of the "official" Orain logo be uploaded by an Orain Steward to Commons. I would recommend the most restrictive license available from the Creative Commons stable, which would be the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. That's just my suggestion, and I am no expert on these things. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 22:30, 3 September 2013 (UTC)