[Clipart] organize repository and access rights

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.com
Tue Jul 13 22:58:51 PDT 2004


On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Alberto Simões wrote:
> >>
> >>The RedHat... will we have the same issue as firefox logo?
> > 
> > 
> > I would hope that the hat could still be included.
> > 
> > I'd like to believe that the red hat or blue hat could be changed enough
> > that it would not too closely resemble the logo of RedHat which is a Red
> > Fedora.  (I suspect the Fedora Project is using a blue hat).
> 
> to clarify this: i drawn that hat entirely from scratch and not 
> reproduced the Red Hat logo from their website 
> (http://www.redhat.com/img/homepg_rh_logo.gif) or desktop 
> (http://nicubunu.ro/fedora/shadowman.png).
> 
> you will see this exact image used in a Fedora related website BUT the 
> image was taken from my repository (http://www.fedora-linux.nl/) - and 
> can be considered a kind of success story.

That's very cool.  :-)

Trademark law is kinda weird though.  Sometimes even if the image isn't
exactly the same, if it still conveys "the same idea", it counts.  But
then, if you change the color, and orientation, and shading, or bend the
flap a little, or put a buckle on it, or any other little trivial tweak,
suddenly it's different enough and doesn't count.

Bryce




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