Re: popular swirl...

["Brian T. Sniffen" <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

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/
> >
> > (The picture is here: http://www.elektrostore.com/Bilder/electro_loga.gif )
>
>
> Hell that's not just familiar that's a blatent rip.  Lest anyone doubt
> that they copied it here's a 2 minute mod to the Debian logo in gimp
> that produces rougly the same image:
> http://ben.reser.org/irc/openlogo-nd-50-rot-blue.png
>
> I rotated the logo and rotated the color map. Looks like they rotated it
> a little more than I did or cut off part of the tail, but it is pretty
> darn obvious that it's from the same source.

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 complaint -- saying there wasn't any proof Debian had
come up with the swirl either, and it could come from a font or 
something -- that maybe Debian and the web designer he paid got it from 
the same source.

-Brian

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