Re: GNOME logo issue
- From: "Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>
- To: "Dave Neary" <dneary gnome org>
- Cc: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>, Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra alumnos utalca cl>, foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME logo issue
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:08:52 -0500
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Shaun McCance wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:27 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
>>> Selon Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra alumnos utalca cl>:
>>>> http://www.randomimage.us/
>>>>
>>>> I think that would be some kind of copyright infringment (IANAL).
>>> Thanks for the heads-up. In this instance, it is a case of trademark
>>> infringement, not copyright infringement. I've sent them an e-mail asking them
>>> to stop using our mark. If they refuse, we'll have to get the foundation's
>>> lawyers to send a nastygram.
>>
>> I was just browsing my email archive for discussions about
>> logo usage guidelines, and ran across this. This site is
>> still (or again), using the foot.
>>
>> Can we do something about this please?
>
> Just replying to what I said back in 2006 (I'll let someone else take
> care of it this time) - I'm not sure if we'd get them under trademark
> infringement, it's probably a better bet to use copyright, since it
> appears they just lifted some GNOME artwork for the logo.
>
> I'll let our resident IANALY comment though... Luis?
That is roughly correct. I'll send another letter. Dave, who did you
send it to the last time?
Luis (apologies for lag, I'm in jury duty and that has significantly
slagged my time for everything)
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