Licensing on branding is ~impossible to follow #3
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To start from something basic, one should probably not be required to understand German to figure out the terms of how to use the Lix logo. As far as I know, this is a German version of the CC-by-sa, but this is not written down anywhere that I could find, and I had to reverse engineer it from the terms of the license.
Second, CC-by-sa is very inadequate for a logo. My use case for producing a copy of the Lix logo was to stop hotlinking the one we use on the homepage of afnix.fr from git.lix.systems. As it stands, I believe that I cannot do this without also requiring our homepage to say something akin to "This image is (c) $whoever and licensed under $license", which I'm just not going to do, and realistically nobody is ever going to do. The main protection for logos usually comes from trademark law, creative commons licenses are just the wrong tool for this (unless using CC0). Funnily enough, I don't think we violate the license currently by hotlinking, though I'm not really sure of that.
Third, this repo doesn't even properly expose copyright information for the files it distributes under CC-by-sa, which means anyone wanting to reuse them needs to do Git history archeology to figure out who to attribute things to. Right now that seems to be at least two individual contributors that would need to be named on every place the logo is used?
Please figure out something that people can actually use to refer to Lix via its correct branding. I'm a strong advocate of CC0 for logos and using trademark law to protect how people refer to your project. Copyright doesn't really prevent any of the "bad" things one can do with your logo anyway, and especially not CC-by-sa.
For more brokenness to untangle : https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix-website/src/branch/main/themes/lix currently contains a copy of the Lix logo licensed under the MIT license. It's not clear whether it's a derivative of something in this repo or not.
I have no recollection of how that LICENSE file came to be, and given my dutch proclivities I find the german in that license file unreadably pronounceable
afaict I'm the only real "IP holder" in the repo, and I usually just public domain my art, so you have my permission (and thus license) to PR relicensing this however the heck you want
Thanks for the quick reply, this at least unblocks me fixing afnix.fr having a broken image on its homepage :) Will follow-up with a change to CC0 as soon as I'm done with the more urgent fixes.