Bah, the subject of this mail should have been: PayPal and other non-free images
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > There are a small number of PayPal and flattr related images in Debian: > > wget -qO - http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-amd64.gz > | zgrep -Ei '(paypal|flattr).*\.(png|gif)' > wget -qO - http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-source.gz > | zgrep -Ei '(paypal|flattr).*\.(png|gif)' > > Based on a quick review, some of them seem to be PayPal logos or > PayPal buttons, which I guess we don't have a license to > distribute/modify/etc. If you believe Wikipedia, the PayPal logos are > not copyrightable[1] and presumably the relevant packages use them to > refer to PayPal, so trademark law should be irrelevant. The donate > buttons however are probably non-free. There were also PayPal related > images in the same directories but with names like btn_foo, so there > might be more PayPal related images hiding in the archive. Other > images with paypal in their names look like they might not be directly > from the PayPal company. > > While looking at the PayPal images I noted some other similar images > such as flattr buttons or icons that were clearly from Microsoft > products or logos of other large companies. > > I wonder if there is a way to check this sort of thing automatically. > My attempts at using md5sums for that were not successful. > > Are there any volunteers to sort through this mess and file some bugs? > I personally don't have time to do that. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PayPal_logo.svg > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6esxlic8njoyj36g2ylhhvqvyfb5-zr0eohp8r4l7n...@mail.gmail.com
