Re: trademark in documents
On Jueves, 9 de agosto de 2012 17:20:07 Josue Abarca escribió:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:15:36AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 10:48:10 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
> ...
>
> > Is the Firefox logo licensed under the GNU LGPL now?
> > When was it re-licensed?
> > I don't remember receiving such interesting news...
>
> Quoting wikpedia[0]
>
> "Mozilla has placed the Firefox logo files under open-source
> licenses,[71][72] but its trademark guidelines do not allow displaying
> altered[73] or similar logos[74] in contexts where trademark law
> applies."
Oh!
Great news. I tried the same with OpenSUSE logo at their mail list. I wanted
to add it to the map but i had not success. They disagreed.
I understand that well, this changes a little the situation. If im not wrong
It's better because it become more correct if I use the official opensource
logo. For me its not a problem i preffer the original ones.
But, does this solves my dubt? Can it be a problem if I use the firefox logo in
the map?
The other point Francesco Poli focused is important too. The different contents
of the map have different licenses. Some of then can be incompatible. Im
interested in talked about that too.
The opinion I am holding was told to me when I asked about this some time ago.
The idea is that my SVG file is like a box with some contents. The License I
put is in the box. In the texts and places for everthing, not on the contents.
I have asked about this some times to different members of different proyects
and i got answers from "no you cant use as free but u can use it we will not
say you to stop"*1 for logos that arent in the map or are changed for things
like then. Or answers like ok "I give you permision to use that license"*2
*1Thats with openbsd witch is not their logo. Same for Ubuntu because i got no
answer.
*2The new versión of Debian logo proposed in the debconf10 in spain or the
enlightenment logo.
The SVG file have inside in the XML the SVGs of the icons. They can be removed
or moved to a new SVG file without alteration. And the license of that parts
arent changed or afected by the license of the SVG container. In this point
of view its like to use different programs with diferent licences in one Live-
CD or in one Debian package. If the programs arent linked in the same binary I
understand they can be toguether in the package.
This is my point of view at the moment and when I have talked about this no
one toldme to stop. If there is a problem for any proyect to use the logo in
my didactical matherial ill remove it without problem.
So now i have ask your opinions about this 2 dubts.
The firefox logo, the official, can be used in the map without to make problems
to Debian?
The box idea is wrong? can the box way to see this be a problem to Debian?
Thanks for your opinions and for reading this long email. :)
Regards
--
René
>
> [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Trademark_and_logo
>
> [71]
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/branding/official/LI
> CENSE [72] "Mozilla bug 541761 – Some text implies the Firefox logo is
> under a non-free copyright license"
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541761
> [73] http://www.mozilla.com/about/logo/legal.html (down for me right now)
> [74]
> http://replay.web.archive.org/20100522010026/http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
> about/logo/stop.html (down for me right now)
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