On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:17:01PM +0200, Amaya wrote: > h01ger wrote: > > The logo still looks like the debian swirl in blue plus some rotation > > to me... > /me wonders... > Isn't the Debian swirl logo just a very basic Adobe Illustrator > template? How are we going to enforce anything? > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00340.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/png00000.png A work doesn't cease to be copyright-protected just because someone is able to document a process by which it can be reproduced. I don't know the Illustrator tools very well, but it seems rather unlikely to me that, even given the starting point of a standard brush shape, someone else would have independently created a swirl using the same brush stroke that has just the right amount of curvature and curves starting at just the right point. It's quite a bit more likely that the logo *was* copied, which means copyright infringement. Trademark protection is a separate question entirely; I don't see that there's much grounds for claiming trademark infringement here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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