# Is the Ruby "ruby logo" licenced under creative commons?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 30, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-the-ruby-ruby-logo-licenced-under-creative-commons/83931 "2007-01-30T21:42:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![bch36](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@bch36](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bch36)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-the-ruby-ruby-logo-licenced-under-creative-commons/83931/1 "2007-01-30T21:42:41Z")

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Is the Ruby “ruby logo” licenced under creative commons? (The ruby logo  
found in the header of [Ruby Programming Language](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/))

I was also wondering if someone had made a good ‘ruby’ t-shirt with  
the logo on it? I was looking for some ruby ‘nerd-wear’ and couldn’t  
find anything other than a few ugly shirts on cafe-press.

If there are no good shirts out there and the logo is under CC  
I am definitely interested in designing some shirts, printing them, and  
selling them at cost. (But, I want to make sure I wouldn’t be breaking  
any copyrights to print the shirts first)

Thanks,  
Ben Congleton  
Nethernet Corporation  
[http://www.nethernet.com](http://www.nethernet.com)

Phd Student  
School of Information  
University of Michigan

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**Author:** ![bch36](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@bch36](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bch36)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-the-ruby-ruby-logo-licenced-under-creative-commons/83931/2 "2007-01-30T22:18:58Z")

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Ben Congleton wrote:

> Is the Ruby “ruby logo” licenced under creative commons? (The ruby logo  
> found in the header of [Ruby Programming Language](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/))
> 
> I was also wondering if someone had made a good ‘ruby’ t-shirt with  
> the logo on it? I was looking for some ruby ‘nerd-wear’ and couldn’t  
> find anything other than a few ugly shirts on cafe-press.

I hope they weren’t among these:

[http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com)

> If there are no good shirts out there and the logo is under CC  
> I am definitely interested in designing some shirts, printing them, and  
> selling them at cost. (But, I want to make sure I wouldn’t be breaking  
> any copyrights to print the shirts first)

See the link at the bottom of the [ruby-lang.org](http://ruby-lang.org) home page for:

[http://rubyidentity.org/](http://rubyidentity.org/)

Want to use the Ruby logo for your own project?

Download the Ruby logo kit and get started right away! The Ruby logo is  
copyright © 2006, Yukihiro M… It is released under the terms of  
the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

But I don’t see this graphic of a ruby as any official logo. It’s  
simply part of the current page design.

(There was a thread on Ruby logo and mascots some time back, and it  
thankfully faded away.)

–  
James B.

“I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion  
out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be  
solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!”

- Edsger Dijkstra