6 Mar
2016
6 Mar
'16
11:19 p.m.
On Sunday 06 March 2016 18:12:56 Thomas Maus wrote:
So my urgent request to those favoring the gear and
konqui: State if you
know, that these issues are settled legally!?
Only a negative one - a lack of objection. The project was originally called
KDE-Trinity, but the name had to be changed because KDE objected on trademark
or copyright grounds - or both? - to the use of the name KDE. KDE did not at
the time object to the use of anything else. Surely it would be hard to
claim a picture of a gear as copyright? And some years after the other
objection, we now have usage in our favour. We'll soon hit the Statute of
Limitations.
Moreover, if Konqui and the gear are GPL and/or Creative Commons, they are
available anyway! And a short period of Googling suggests a) that they are
and b) that KDE5's Konqui has been redesigned and is recognisably different.
Lisi