[Clipart] Firefox trademarks

[Jon Phillips]

Yes, we should not include these in our distros. We probably shouldn't
even allow them on the site, unless GIMP or other parties places their
logos into the public domain.

Jon


On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:27, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.com> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, logos and other trademarked items tend to have a lot of
> > conditions attached to them, and I wonder if it wouldn't be safer to
> > simply exclude all trademarked images.  I'd assume they're not
> > placed in the public domain anyway.
> 
> I agree that it would be safest to exclude images with significant
> trademark issues from the collection.
> 
> I have no idea whether Wilbur is a trademark.  He's a logo and a
> mascot, but I never investigated his legal status.  I've never been
> very clear on the FSF's stand on trademarks, though I think I have a
> fair idea what their stance on patents is.  I poked around on gimp.org
> and didn't find anything about this.  Unless someone knows, maybe we
> should ask.
> 
> Any image related in any way to Mozilla.org is almost surely
> trademarked, for historical reasons having to do with Netscape.
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