In message hev0h8$ui...@ger.gmane.org, Joe Smith
unknown_kev_...@hotmail.com writes
Now I looka at the other extreme. In theory, with copyright if you
independently create a work that happens to be absolutely identical
(say letter by letter or pixel by pixel), without even knowing about
the
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:41:40 + Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
In message hev0h8$ui...@ger.gmane.org, Joe Smith
unknown_kev_...@hotmail.com writes
Now I looka at the other extreme. In theory, with copyright if you
independently create a work that happens to be absolutely identical
(say
Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote in message
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Mike Hommey dijo [Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:30:58AM +0100]:
More than the trademark fair use problem, there is one of a license one:
Are these logo really free ? (keep in mind that for example, the Firefox
Ben Finney dijo [Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:04:33AM +1100]:
I agree. What about MSN butterfly [1], ICQ flower [2], etc ?
ICQ, THE FLOWER LOGO, THE ICQ NETWORK and/or other ICQ products
referenced herein are trademarks and/or servicemarks of ICQ. […] No
license is granted to you in this
Mike Hommey dijo [Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:30:58AM +0100]:
More than the trademark fair use problem, there is one of a license one:
Are these logo really free ? (keep in mind that for example, the Firefox
logo is not, whatever the trademark status is)
Depends on its source. If I were to draw a
Ben Finney wrote:
This does, to my mind, permit using the mark to say ???this product
supports that other product and/or service???, and doesn't need the
trademark holder's permission.
Whether other jurisdictions have a similar allowance, I don't know.
To my knowledge this is a fairly
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:08:14PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Eion Robb e...@robbmob.com writes:
There's no “fair use” in trademark law AFAIK.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trademark+law+fair+usel=1
(Leads to
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law))
Okay, so it seems
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote:
More than the trademark fair use problem, there is one of a license one:
Are these logo really free ? (keep in mind that for example, the Firefox
logo is not, whatever the trademark status is)
The initial mail in this
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:52:22PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote:
More than the trademark fair use problem, there is one of a license one:
Are these logo really free ? (keep in mind that for example, the Firefox
logo is not,
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote:
The pidgin-facebookchat icons seem free (GPLv3) though.
Well, that's what they claim, but what is the real status ? A wild guess
is that most icons that are present in packages have been picked from
the web sites (or
(Please don't send individual copies, we read them via the list)
Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes:
For example, I have serious doubts about the freeness of the search
engine icons in iceweasel (the ones on the top right of the UI).
Those are (as far as I understand) published by the
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:31:30PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Those are (as far as I understand) published by the OpenSearch protocol,
and explicitly sent using that protocol by the search provider as “an
image that can be used in association with this search content”
Paul Wise wrote:
According to the comments in one of the URLs in the initial mail in
this thread, the author of the facebook icon specifically created it
for pidgin-facebookchat, so I imagine they specifically licensed it
under the GPLv3 for pidgin-facebookchat folks.
Eion Robb wrote:
I believe repacking upstream tarball to exclude logos is the way to go.
You'll also want to remove the MSN/AIM/etc logos from Pidgin/Empathy/etc
too, since they obviously fall into the same legal grey area.
Unless they're considered fair use then everything should be good to
Gabriele Giacone losga...@libero.it writes:
Eion Robb wrote:
You'll also want to remove the MSN/AIM/etc logos from
Pidgin/Empathy/etc too, since they obviously fall into the same
legal grey area. Unless they're considered fair use then
everything should be good to go.
There's no “fair
There's no “fair use” in trademark law AFAIK.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trademark+law+fair+usel=1
:)
Eion Robb e...@robbmob.com writes:
There's no “fair use” in trademark law AFAIK.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trademark+law+fair+usel=1
(Leads to
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law))
Okay, so it seems (according to Wikipedia) that the USA does recognise a
“trademark fair
I believe repacking upstream tarball to exclude logos is the way to go.
You'll also want to remove the MSN/AIM/etc logos from Pidgin/Empathy/etc
too, since they obviously fall into the same legal grey area.
Unless they're considered fair use then everything should be good to go.
Hi,
Luca Falavigna wrote:
Skype’s trade marks and trade dress may not be used in connection
with any product or service that is not Skype’s, in any manner that
is likely to cause confusion among customers
pidgin-skype is a third-party software, not provided or associated with
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:53:17 +0100 Luca Falavigna wrote:
When looking for possible sponsorship for pidgin-skype package (see
[1], and follow-up messages), I looked at the images located under
icons/ directory, they are very similar (if not perfectly identical) to
Skype trademark logos, whose
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