Re: PayPal and other non-free images
Bah, the subject of this mail should have been:
PayPal and other non-free images
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> There are a small number of PayPal and flattr related images in Debian:
>
> wget -qO - http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-amd64.gz
> | zgrep -Ei '(paypal|flattr).*\.(png|gif)'
> wget -qO - http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-source.gz
> | zgrep -Ei '(paypal|flattr).*\.(png|gif)'
>
> Based on a quick review, some of them seem to be PayPal logos or
> PayPal buttons, which I guess we don't have a license to
> distribute/modify/etc. If you believe Wikipedia, the PayPal logos are
> not copyrightable[1] and presumably the relevant packages use them to
> refer to PayPal, so trademark law should be irrelevant. The donate
> buttons however are probably non-free. There were also PayPal related
> images in the same directories but with names like btn_foo, so there
> might be more PayPal related images hiding in the archive. Other
> images with paypal in their names look like they might not be directly
> from the PayPal company.
>
> While looking at the PayPal images I noted some other similar images
> such as flattr buttons or icons that were clearly from Microsoft
> products or logos of other large companies.
>
> I wonder if there is a way to check this sort of thing automatically.
> My attempts at using md5sums for that were not successful.
>
> Are there any volunteers to sort through this mess and file some bugs?
> I personally don't have time to do that.
>
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PayPal_logo.svg
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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