[Nautilus-list] Re: logo artwork in CVS

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Perhaps this is irrelevant to the situation...but Linus Torvalds holds
the trademark to "Linux" which is most certainely checked in all over
the place. 

-Seth

> We have a bunch of artwork on CVS that includes the Eazel logo. By
> including it in Nautilus that way, we are sort of effectively GPL'ing
> our logo. I think that is incompatible with enforcing our trademark
> rights in our logo.
> 
> We need to find a way to resolve this, one of:
> 
> * Put a separate license for our logo in CVS; however, it would be bad
>   form to check in anything that is not free according to the Open
>   Source Definition
> 
> * decide that our logo is freely redistributable under some suitable
>   license (e.g. the GPL), and not worry about what effect this may
>   have on trademark enforcement
> 
> * Remove artwork including our logo from cvs (perhaps putting in
>   stand-in artwork, and adding back our logo in binaries that we
>   distribute).
> 
> Maybe I am making a mountain out of a molehill; but folks at Helix
> tell me that they had legal advice not to GPL artwork including their
> logo if they want to be able to enforce their trademark, and that this
> is the reason they don't check in artwork including their logo. It's
> worth at least a chat with a trademark lawyer I think.
> 
>  - Maciej