Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-31 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 31.12.2003 at 09:55:06 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörgen Hägg said: Somehow the swirl on this page seems familiar... :-) Somehow this thread seems familiar... :-) I miss a statement like We will/won't prosecute this case after reading the archives, but given

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 16:33, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:18:29PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:04:01PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: This has come up before. SPI was asked to look into the trademark violation involved. IIRC, the proprietor

Re: Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Ben Reser quoth: Ignore the trademark issue. The copyright issue should be much clearer. Surely SPI knows who made the logo and that person can certify that it is an original work? If SPI can do that they have a case of a clear derivative work. If SPI can't do that then Debian needs a

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:18:29PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:04:01PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: This has come up before. SPI was asked to look into the trademark violation involved. IIRC, the proprietor of elektrostore was contacted and dismissed the

[OT] Re: Bug#224866: kanjidic: Kanjidic is not DFSG-free

2003-12-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:48:19PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Bummer. Now the EU gets stuck with allowing copyrights on the various Genome sequences. I guess the phenomenon of governmentally sanctioned rape of the populace is spreading. You are misdiagnosing the nature of the problem. The

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have little patience for superstitious beliefs, and less still for people who claim to be defending the tender feelings of the ignorant. Brian T. Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] then writes: But why use names correlated with evil when other options are

Since you designed the Debian 'swirl' logo...

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
debian-legal wanted to check with you whether it was drawn entirely from scratch, or whether it made use of any pre-existing clip art in the 'swirl' design. If it was drawn from scratch, whether you'd ever licensed anyone else to use it other than Debian. And if it wasn't all from scratch, if

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-31 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:04:01PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Jörgen Hägg wrote: Somehow the swirl on this page seems familiar... :-) http://www.elektrostore.com/ This has come up before. SPI was asked to look into the

Re: BOINC packaging

2003-12-31 Thread Karl Chen
Anthony == Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony Anthony On Dec 27, 2003, at 01:06, Karl Chen wrote: Current BOINC applications ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Astropulse - of which I am a developer) are GPL but are not of much use without BOINC. Would they go in