On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 12:02:31PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 01/04/2015 at 11:41 AM, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote: > > > The debian swirl is trademarked, but freely licensed. > > > > However, this isn't our swirl. And I don't think it's adding > > confusion. If you want, you can email trademarks@ :) > > Personally, I've been more confused by the swirl which is the current > Dreamwidth favicon; it's in a more similar style, and a more similar > color, it simply happens to be swirling in the opposite direction. I've > mistaken it for the Debian-logo favicon, and vice versa, more than once > while trying to find a particular open tab. > > I don't think even that much similarity is enough to make it a trademark > violation, though. If nothing else, Debian and Dreamwidth are in very > different businesses. ^_^
Just for some fun, I've found another (debian?) swirl in a very different business, a string instruments maker in Romania. See first and last pages of their cello catalog: http://www.gliga.ro/cello.pdf -- tiago -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
