Considering all what I said on debian-legal, I consider that the images
provided in openclipart are not a problem concerning copyright or trademark.
I am therefore closing this thread on this mailing-list and the bug report.
Thanks to everybody who help me to understand the problem.
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Considering all what I said on debian-legal, I consider that the images
provided in openclipart are not a problem concerning copyright or trademark.
I am therefore closing this thread on this mailing-list and the bug report.
Thanks to everybody who help me to understand the problem.
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O Luns, 10 de Xaneiro de 2005 ás 18:51:32 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen escribía:
I wouldn't be horribly surprised if the names hummer or rubik are
Is HMMV a registered trademark?
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:03:39AM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote:
Considering all what I said on debian-legal, I consider that the images
provided in openclipart are not a problem concerning copyright or trademark.
I am therefore closing this thread on this mailing-list and the bug report.
Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should admit that I don't know anything about such copyright law,
however I think that as long it is just a drawing without any
copyrighted logo, it's not a problem.
A quick look over these pictures suggests no *copyright* problems.
They look like
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should admit that I don't know anything about such copyright law,
however I think that as long it is just a drawing without any
copyrighted logo, it's not a problem.
A
[I'll not Cc: you Aurelian, as I assume you'll get this from the BTS
anyway. Others: If you stop Cc:'ing the bug, you'll probably need to
Cc: the maintainer.]
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
I recently package and uploaded openclipart [1], an open clipart
library. The package has
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:59:38AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
can go there. For Rubik it is a little more difficult to find another
work, and I am almost sure this word is used somewhere in Debian.
After a quick look on google, it seems that Rubik is not a registred
trademark, but Rubik's Cube
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:16:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
[I'll not Cc: you Aurelian, as I assume you'll get this from the BTS
anyway. Others: If you stop Cc:'ing the bug, you'll probably need to
Cc: the maintainer.]
I am subscribed to the list, so don't need to Cc: me. For the BTS, if
the
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:36:34AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Considering all of that, I think the hummer files could be a problem as
the filename states that the artist wanted to draw a hummer car. As
HUMMER is a registered trademark of General Motors Corporation, it may
be a problem.
Hi everybody!
I recently package and uploaded openclipart [1], an open clipart
library. The package has just been accepted by the ftpmasters and is now
in Debian.
I just received a bug report (#289764) from William Ballard about
problematic copyrighted pictures, that looks like similar to some
Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should admit that I don't know anything about such copyright law,
however I think that as long it is just a drawing without any
copyrighted logo, it's not a problem.
A quick look over these pictures suggests no *copyright* problems.
They look like
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should admit that I don't know anything about such copyright law,
however I think that as long it is just a drawing without any
copyrighted logo, it's not a problem.
A
[I'll not Cc: you Aurelian, as I assume you'll get this from the BTS
anyway. Others: If you stop Cc:'ing the bug, you'll probably need to
Cc: the maintainer.]
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
I recently package and uploaded openclipart [1], an open clipart
library. The package has
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
There may be trademark problems. For example, Duracell may have a
consider the orange-and-black battery to be trade dress; my
understanding of trademark law is quite limited, but I don't think it
applies to pictures of the
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:59:38AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
can go there. For Rubik it is a little more difficult to find another
work, and I am almost sure this word is used somewhere in Debian.
After a quick look on google, it seems that Rubik is not a registred
trademark, but Rubik's Cube
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:16:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
[I'll not Cc: you Aurelian, as I assume you'll get this from the BTS
anyway. Others: If you stop Cc:'ing the bug, you'll probably need to
Cc: the maintainer.]
I am subscribed to the list, so don't need to Cc: me. For the BTS, if
the
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:16:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
However, it's quite possible that they are representations of
trademarks, and as such protected wherever such a company has
trademarks. [I don't deign to know who actually controlls these
trademarks, or even if they are really
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:16:16PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
Almost none of these images appear to actually be affected by whomever
William claims to own the copyright, unless they are actually
derivative works of something that is copyrighted.[1]
However, it's quite possible that they are
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:36:34AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Considering all of that, I think the hummer files could be a problem as
the filename states that the artist wanted to draw a hummer car. As
HUMMER is a registered trademark of General Motors Corporation, it may
be a problem.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:56:37AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:13:21PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
It's pretty clear what the intent was -- those are intended to
represents specific brands. I have no idea if that's permitted or not.
Of course it's allowed,
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