You know. :) Sorry.
14 Sep 2005 02:19:00 +0200, Claus Färber <claus@xn--frber-gra.muc.dehttp://frber-gra.muc.de
:
Felipe Micaroni Lalli micaroni@gmail.com schrieb/wrote:
The system is free but the Gnome logo isn't under free license. Try
create a
System with this logo. You can't.
That's trademark law, not copyright. Even if you draw a "confusingly similar" image, which is not considered a derivate by copyright law and of which you hold full copyright, you still can't use it to create your own system. You can't even use the character sequence "G"-"N"-"O"-"M"-"E", although it is inelegible for copyright.
On the other hand, tradmark law allows you to do whatever you want with that logo unless you claim to be GNOME Foundation (or your products theirs or endorsed by them).
Like the Wikimedia logo.
The Wikimedia logos are actually both trademarked AND copyrighted by Wikimedia Foundation.
Claus
Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l