[Clipart] Penguin with a shirt

[Nicu Buculei (OCAL)]

Peter Mathijssen wrote:
> 
> Most of the time i am just a reader of the list, but... I submitted a 
> penguin image to the new cchost list and it was questioned because it 
> had the name Tux in it. That was ok by me, because i didn't realise that 
> tux is copyrighted. I deleted the image from cchost.

All this so-called "Intellectual Property" is very complicated and 
confusing.
Basically a name cannot be copyrighted, it may be protected by trademark 
and, as fair as I know, the word "Tux" is not protected by trademark (as 
an opposite, the word "Linux" is trademarked).
Copyrighted can be a certain image, for example a certain drawing of the 
Linux penguin, like the traditional Tux by Larry Ewing: 
http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/ (but that particular image is 
released under a very liberal license ("Permission to use and/or modify 
this image is granted provided you acknowledge me lewing at isc.tamu.edu 
and The GIMP if someone asks")

> I tried to contact the admin, to talk about this, but i guess something 
> went wrong with my message.

*How* you tried to contact the administrator? An email to a generic 
address, the contact form on the website, bugzilla?

> I now uploaded the same image and named it "Penguin with a shirt". It 
> has nothing to do with Tux, it is just a bird of the same family. I 
> guess not all penguins are Tux-es, if that is correct English. ;-)
> 
> I hope this time the bird stays :-)

Personally, I can see no reason for the bird to not stay.

-- 
nicu
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