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General Discussion

what FOSS mascots are free and open?

gaymoo
Saturday, May 7, 2022 - 21:35

friends what characters associated with foss projects are licensed under free and open licenses?

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MedicineStorm
joined 12 years 8 months ago
Saturday, May 7, 2022 - 22:02
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Are there FOSS mascots that aren't free and open? If so, how are they FOSS?

--Medicine Storm

 

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gaymoo
joined 3 years 4 weeks ago
Saturday, May 7, 2022 - 22:26

apparantly 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

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MedicineStorm
joined 12 years 8 months ago
Saturday, May 7, 2022 - 22:44
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oh, wow. ok, I am interested as well, because I don't know the answer for any of the mascots, then.

--Medicine Storm

 

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gaymoo
joined 3 years 4 weeks ago
Saturday, May 7, 2022 - 23:05

for 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/...

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