18 Mar
2011
18 Mar
'11
2:58 p.m.
Hold up in court? I can't imagine anybody from the KDE non-profit organization taking
that issue to court. Generally, courts are supposed to be remedies of last resort, which
means everybody in this group ignoring cease-and-desist letters, etc. Yup, that would go
over good in the daily free/libre software news. :)
Does the KDE3 license agreement say anything explicit about logos and trademarks? Are
those logos actually registered trademarks? Copyrighted?
How does using a logo that looks similar to old KDE3 logos infringe or impair usage of
KDE4 logos?
I don't think those questions matter because the KDE people abandoned the KDE3
software. Abandoned rights means no rights. In common law, abandoned property becomes
owned by the first party claiming ownership.
We have an attorney in our group who probably can answer such questions.
Regarding that drawing you refer, I would vote no.
I'm content with the logo art work already done by Tim.
If you are handy with art work (I am not! :)), how about working on some login splash
screens for Trinity? Or some wallpaper?
Darrell
--- On Fri, 3/18/11, jamesg(a)dimensionality.com <jamesg(a)dimensionality.com> wrote:
From: jamesg(a)dimensionality.com
<jamesg(a)dimensionality.com>
Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] Mascot and logo, Proposal 1
To: trinity-devel(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Date: Friday, March 18, 2011, 5:36 AM
Our existing placeholder logo is one we can only use for as
long as KDE
will let us. There is no way it would hold up in
court -- it's too
blatantly derived from theirs.
What I'm wanting to do is work out replacement branding in
the time we
have, and do it well, so that we only need to do a major
change of
branding once. Whether it's a robot, a bird, a
jumping spider, can
opener, or whatever else we might decide on.
I may be erring on the side of overthinking it, but that
seems a safer
direction than not thinking it through.
Anyone else have comments on L315 other than the ones I've
gotten from
chat or private email?
Strangelv
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