Re: Legal status of tkchooser (microsoft logo used)

[Jeff Carr]

On 12/21/06 13:53, Joe Smith wrote:

>> That's probably considered fair use for the purpose of which it was
>> intended. I'd guess Microsoft is unlikely to complain. In any case,
>> you should ask the tkchooser authors about it and they can contact
>> Microsoft if they think it is necessary.
> 
> The use there does appear to fall under trdamark fair use.
> If there is no copyright problems with respect to the image (which could
> happen if the image is taken
> directly from one in windows, for example) then there should be no
> problem with that image.

Sorry for the long delay in responding. Your reasoning here is not
clear to me. It would be interesting to know how you come to that
conclusion if you care to explain. It seems completely opposite to my
own conclusion and experience.

Jeff


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Re: creative commons

[Jeff Carr]

On 01/05/07 16:43, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:48:11 +1100 Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> 
>> On 1/6/07, Luis Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I want some feedback on the compatibility of creative commons 2.5
>>> and Debian.
>>>
>>> I read that v 2.0 is not compatible ... how about 2.5? are there
>>> variants that are and some that are not ... or ... they are not at
>>> all?
>>>
>> At the moment it's believed that none of the Creative Commons licenses
>> of any version (except CC-BY-SA Scotland v2.5 iirc) are DFSG
>> compatible.
> 
> Mmmmh, I'm not convinced about the DFSG-freeness of
> CC-by-sa-2.5/scotland either...

That's good, I'm not convinced that CC in any form isn't DFSG. :)
It seems to me the CC is written with the same kind of mentality and
intentions that the DFSG was written.

>> BY and BY-SA v3.0 will most likely be DFSG free thanks to
>> the effort of some Debian people.
> 
> I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think the current drafts are
> DFSG-free and I have few hopes that the finat texts will be
> substantially different from the current drafts.
> 
> See
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/10/msg00167.html
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2006-November/004472.html
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2006-December/004779.html
> for further details.

Well, these are a bit extreme I think. I'm not finding the arguments
convincing.

Jeff


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