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by vamega 4720 days ago
> Seafile and its desktop and mobile clients are published under GPLv3 with one exception -- the seafile's logo of desktop and mobile clients must be kept when redistribution.

Uhh, that does make it impossible to fork the project under a new name? Also this isn't mentioned anywhere in License.tx which appears to be a run-of-the-mill GPLv3 license file.

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Interestingly enough GPLv3 itself states the following:

> If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

Does that mean that I can just ignore their logo requirement?

Yeah, that sounds like a bug. I filed it: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/299
With that exception clause that makes it non-GPL.
That only requires that you keep the logo file in the project, not necessarily that you use it.