On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 02:50:04PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:36:44AM +0100, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > > FYI - A computer shop has taken the Debian logo and used it for his
> > > business.
>
> > >
http://imgur.com/gFKfs.jpg
>
> > Thank you for making this jpeg, it's very clear.
>
> > > [...]
> > > "The comapny Logo was created by photoshop and Logo software, we desgined it
> > > from the stretch. if you have somethins to say, give us a call."
> >
> > Unfortunately, they may be right and in good faith.
> > This message confirms the swirl is just one of the defaults:
> >
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00340.html
>
> This is an unsubstantiated claim that has been repeated ad absurdum on the
> lists for years. Sure, it uses a default brush. But who has demonstrated
> that the exact swirl pattern can be reproduced trivially by accident? No
> one. When companies show up with a logo that reproduces your exact
> *application* of the brush, angle for angle down to the pixel, it stretches
> credulity to claim that this occurred to them independently.