Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> You could make a screenshot from where the original icons are shown,
> then re-encode those tiny 16x16px thingies into new *.ico files with
> GIMP. This is sorta like taking a photograph (if in doubt, take an
> actual photo), or a bitmap font (where neither the font nor the indi‐
> vidual glyphs fall under copyright law), so only trademark law matters,
> and Don already said Debian can “probably” use them to refer to the
> sites in question.
Debian has legal advice from SPI lawyers that screenshots are
derivative works and thus are under the same license as the software
they are derived from.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00016.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00018.html
Trademarks are indeed irrelevant here.
> I question that 16x16px logos fall under the copyright law at all.
> Maybe some of the picture metadata, at best (hence the suggestion
> to re-encode).
I expect some creativity goes into cramming logos into such a small
space but IANAL so...
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bye,
pabs
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