30 Dec
2014
30 Dec
'14
10:27 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:33:54 -0600
"Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
The phoenix is interesting as I like the imagery, but
as mentioned before
I'm not sure we can do that without stepping on other toes. Comments on
that issue are welcome; I wasn't involved with FOSS when the pheonix was
Firefox's logo so I wouldn't know. :-)
The people we'd have to watch out for are not the Mozilla Foundation,
but the Firebird Foundation (firebirdsql.org), the people who made
Mozilla change the name of their browser. However, I think it was
mostly a dispute about the *name*--Firefox just changed their logos
and such to match the new name afterwards.
The Firebird logo is extremely stylized and more dragon-like than
bird-like (in my opinion, anyway), and their page on branding policy
( http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-brand-faq/ ) doesn't suggest
that they're trying to "own" all images of phoenixes in the open-source
world, just their name and exact logo. So long as there's no close
resemblance between the logo and whatever we come up with, I
doubt it would be much of a problem.
E. Liddell