Chris, Chris Rowson wrote: >> Organisations have to be very protective about their trademarks. If they >> are allowed to be used freely as is or modified, then they can lose >> their trademark status through general usage. The Kleenex company in the >> US had this problem many years ago. I think there was a big court case >> about it. >> >> Regards, >> Tony. > > That's fair enough Tony. > > I was really commenting about Matt saying: > >> Canonical is beginning to understand that customising the logo is in fact >> a bad idea and causes the initial logo to lose its power. > > I didn't mean using it without their permission so they loose > trademark status because of general usage. I was commenting on the > turnaround from granting derivative works to disallowing them if you > see what I mean....
OK. I think Matt has clarified this in a later posting. It's certainly a bit of a turn around. Maybe they got lawyers involved! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
