On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:51:54 +0100 (CET), Melchior wrote in message <11311.7445.1298757114543.javamail.r...@warsbl214.highway.telekom.at>:
> * "Jon S. Berndt" <jonsber...@comcast.net>: > > [...] but contact the various trademark/logo owners and very > > carefully inform them of the project and ask them for permission. > > Such requests go to the legal department, right? Their job is to > protect the company, so their response will almost certainly be > "no" -- tbe safest and most protective answer they can give. And it > doesn't matter one bit if they have a leg to stand on legally! > It's probably a gray area in many jurisdictions, but isn't what > we do sculpting and painting, hence *art*? So what you end up > with is an almost certain questionable "no". How much better > is that than a questionable "maybe"? ..like I said earlier today, there _are_ ways to encourage "a boring yes", we just need to make the alternative_s_ exiting enough to move from the legal departments to the Boards. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
