On 2/24/09 4:06 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > The Iceweasel question is "Does it violate the definition of free > software to permit logos released under licenses permitting only > restricted distribution?" Most people other than Debian would say no, > because 1) they're a tiny part of the software and easily removed, and > 2) they're trademarked, so you couldn't use them for much even if they > weren't copyrighted. Wikimedia's logos (well, except the MediaWiki > one) are copyrighted with all rights reserved, so probably Wikimedia > disagrees with Debian on this. > > The question that I asked, though, was "Do we want to use or > distributed copyrighted/trademarked logos *without* *any* *permission* > from the rights-holder?" We are *not* talking about a case where the > logo is licensed for people to use only restrictively. We're talking > about a case where the logo is not licensed at *all*. You can't just > go ahead and take a major corporation's logo and incorporate it into > your software without permission. Whether you use the GPL, BSD, MIT, > proprietary licenses, or whatever, that's just illegal, or at least > possibly so.
<IANAL> My impression is that this is just as legal as referring to a company by name -- it's not an infringement to use someone's trademark to *refer to them*, whereas it is to *use the mark or something overly similar to creation confusion and imply you are associated with the mark holder*. However, I don't know just how true this is going to be of logos. :) </IANAL> -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
