Re: GPL versions mismatch.

2009-11-23 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message , Raúl Sánchez Siles writes Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message , Raúl Sánchez Siles writes From what you've said, I think the way forward is apparent. As you surmise, accepting GPL v3 contributions isn't possible with the current project status saying the project licence is v2

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-23 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Eion Robb wrote: >> I believe repacking upstream tarball to exclude logos is the way to go. > > You'll also want to remove the MSN/AIM/etc logos from Pidgin/Empathy/etc > too, since they obviously fall into the same legal grey area. > Unless they're considered "fair use" then everything should be

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Finney
Gabriele Giacone writes: > Eion Robb wrote: > > You'll also want to remove the MSN/AIM/etc logos from > > Pidgin/Empathy/etc too, since they obviously fall into the same > > legal grey area. Unless they're considered "fair use" then > > everything should be good to go. There's no “fair use” in t

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-23 Thread Eion Robb
> There's no “fair use” in trademark law AFAIK. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trademark+law+fair+use&l=1 :)

Re: Skype/Facebook trademark logos in Debian packages

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Finney
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 to Wikipedia) that the USA does recognise a “trademark fair use”, which *does