On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:18:29PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:04:01PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > 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. > > Ignore the trademark issue. We probably don't have a valid trademark on the swirl anyway; too many people use swirls. But this one is actually copyright infringement (unlike, for example, the Sega Dreamcast logo[0] or the Tivola Publishing[1] logo). [0] http://mc.pp.se/dc/dc_mark.gif [1] http://www.tivola.de/Media/MainLogo.gif -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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