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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?
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/...