[Clipart] Firefox trademarks

[Jon Phillips]

I agree...nothing that is not placed in the public domain explicitly.
Companies will sue for identity.

Should I add this to the File and Style Guidelines? What do you all
think? I think we should be explicit about this. Also, should this be
placed on the main page, or just the guidelines? Thoughts?

Jon



On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:59, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, 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.
> 
> Regarding whether or not open source app logos are trademarked, I think
> the BEST thing we can do for the community is to treat them as if they
> were.  I think if we were to pick some app's logo and declare it Public
> Domain, regardless of whether it was trademarked, could cause harm to
> that project.  
> 
> Plus, the situation with non-trademarked logos is murky.  Unlike the
> GPL, where the copyright is _explicity_ and unchangeable, with a
> non-trademarked logo, we don't know for certain what the status is, nor
> can we be absolutely certain that the trademark is "in progress" and
> might show up later.
> 
> Thus for all these reasons together, I think a blanket "no logos and no
> trademarked items" policy would be safest for everyone.
> 
> Bryce
> 
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