Re: Kopete is (maybe) violating a copyright of a tv channel

Rex Dieter <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:20:10 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/27/2010 11:58 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, September 27, 2010, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:43:02AM +0200, serenity wrote:

>>> i just found a icon in kopete that may violate the rights of a german TV
>>> channel called ProSieben: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSieben
...
>> It's a tiny icon of two simple geometric shapes, it's fair use/fair
>> dealing/not large enough to be copyrightable.
> 
> fwiw, i'd expect this to be covered by trademark, not copyright, since it's a 
> company's logo in there.

And, kde-licensing policy doesn't address trademark issues, or doesn't it?

-- Rex