User talk:Nbound
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Sign copyright tag?
During the discussion about Australian shields, you quoted this text:
| “ | Any traffic control device design or application provision contained in this Manual shall be considered to be in the public domain. Traffic control devices contained in this Manual shall not be protected by a patent, trademark, or copyright, except for the Interstate Shield and any items owned by FHWA. | ” |
This means that many things are in the public domain, although some other things are not. Do you know if we have a copyright tag for those things which are in the public domain? There are templates for traffic signs from some other countries, for example Commons:Template:PD-Transportstyrelsen for Swedish road signs. --Stefan2 (talk) 09:36, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
@Stefan2: - Thats an American manual only, there are no Australian shields at all in that publication (and even most of the street signs differ). The "roadgeek" font used is an exact or very near copy of the "Highway Gothic" font owned by the FHWA and both are scalable. The FHWA has not publicly released the font itself. The only safe course of action is to assume its copyrighted. -- Nbound (talk) 12:07, 12 October 2013 (UTC)