Re: Bug#389464: gnome-themes-extras: non-free Firefox icon included
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:56:16PM +0100, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop>
wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> > The only issue here is a trademark one, but as the icon is used to
> > reference firefox itself, I'd have guessed it is allowed. I'm CCing
> > debian-legal, as this has been discussed to death and I guess
> > someone will have more clues than myself.
>
> I think I agree with that. It's not subject to the firefox copyright,
> as far as I know, and it's an honest use of the trademark. If the
> icon is modified to refer to something else, then any bug may be
> caused by the trademark, rather than the icon's copyright licence
> terminating, which is the most common trademark/licensing bug.
Now the remaining question is: has this logo *really* been done from
scratch ? Because there is an almost official svg version of the logo
done with adobe illustrator, which is not under a free license, and if
the logo in gnome-themes-extra appears to be based on this logo, and
saved with sodipodi, there is a problem.
Mike
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