[Clipart] Penguin with a shirt

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:26 +0300, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> 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.

All good points! Let the bird stay!

Jon

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