On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:23:09AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Mike Hommey writes:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:57:12PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > Mike Hommey writes:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:31:30PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > > > [web browser search provider icons ma
Paul Wise wrote:
> According to the comments in one of the URLs in the initial mail in
> this thread, the author of the facebook icon specifically created it
> for pidgin-facebookchat, so I imagine they specifically licensed it
> under the GPLv3 for pidgin-facebookchat folks.
>
> http://cubestuff.
Mike Hommey writes:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:57:12PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Mike Hommey writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:31:30PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > > [web browser search provider icons made available by provider]
> > > > http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:57:12PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Mike Hommey writes:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:31:30PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > Those are (as far as I understand) published by the OpenSearch
> > > protocol, and explicitly sent using that protocol by the search
> > > prov
Mike Hommey writes:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:31:30PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Those are (as far as I understand) published by the OpenSearch
> > protocol, and explicitly sent using that protocol by the search
> > provider as “an image that can be used in association with this
> > search c
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:31:30PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Those are (as far as I understand) published by the OpenSearch protocol,
> and explicitly sent using that protocol by the search provider as “an
> image that can be used in association with this search content”
> http://www.opensearch.or
(Please don't send individual copies, we read them via the list)
Mike Hommey writes:
> For example, I have serious doubts about the freeness of the search
> engine icons in iceweasel (the ones on the top right of the UI).
Those are (as far as I understand) published by the OpenSearch protocol,
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> The pidgin-facebookchat icons seem free (GPLv3) though.
>
> Well, that's what they claim, but what is the real status ? A wild guess
> is that most icons that are present in packages have been picked from
> the web sites (or equivalent) thems
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:52:22PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> > More than the trademark fair use problem, there is one of a license one:
> > Are these logo really free ? (keep in mind that for example, the Firefox
> > logo is not, whatever th
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> More than the trademark fair use problem, there is one of a license one:
> Are these logo really free ? (keep in mind that for example, the Firefox
> logo is not, whatever the trademark status is)
The initial mail in this thread was about CC-
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:08:14PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Eion Robb writes:
>
> > > There's no “fair use” in trademark law AFAIK.
> > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trademark+law+fair+use&l=1
>
> (Leads to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law)>)
>
> Okay, so it seems (according
Ben Finney wrote:
> This does, to my mind, permit using the mark to say ???this product
> supports that other product and/or service???, and doesn't need the
> trademark holder's permission.
>
> Whether other jurisdictions have a similar allowance, I don't know.
To my knowledge this is a fairly c
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