distributing a restricted branding icon OK?
We are working on an eMusic.com extension to Banshee. They allow use (http://www.emusic.com/affiliate/affiliate_faq.html#9) of their unmodified logo. Bruce said back in 2005 (on http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/08/msg00069.html): When creating the DFSG, I recognized, and respected, the right of authors to manage their own brand using trademarks, and to restrict the use of those trademarks in derived works as long as DFSG-compliant use of the software would be possible after a brand substitution. Is changing http://www.emusic.com/favicon.ico to a PNG modifying it? Assume it's not, would we be OK including that image in our Debian package of Banshee? Thanks, Gabriel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikKKvgHQH_t=uaSLE=swhxgiegobr7qi9yjx...@mail.gmail.com
Re: distributing a restricted branding icon OK?
Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 11:54 -0500, Gabriel Burt a écrit : Is changing http://www.emusic.com/favicon.ico to a PNG modifying it? Assume it's not, would we be OK including that image in our Debian package of Banshee? No, it would not. This icon is not free, in terms of copyright - and that’s regardless of any trademark issues. -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `--- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1300210196.30617.179.camel@meh
Re: distributing a restricted branding icon OK?
Gabriel Burt gabriel.b...@gmail.com writes: Is changing http://www.emusic.com/favicon.ico to a PNG modifying it? Assume it's not, would we be OK including that image in our Debian package of Banshee? The way iceweasel handles non-free search engine logos is to download them into the user's local profile when needed. Hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vwgvtph@mid.gienah.enyo.de