Re: "Debian red" used to describe color of clothing

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 01:18:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Björn Andersson wrote:
> > Has anyone ever seen "debian red" being used to describe non-debian related
> > items in this way before?
> 
> A quick web search finds this Nokia device:
> 
> http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/Nokia-Chooses-Bizarre-Debian-Red-Color-Name-for-Its-Windows-Phone-Firmware-454521.shtml
> http://www.windowscentral.com/first-photos-lumia-730-new-debian-red-firmware
> 
> A bunch of colour sites define it too:
> 
> https://colors.findthedata.com/l/721/Debian-Red
> http://www.colorhexa.com/d70a53
> http://www.99colors.net/name/debian-red

I suspect that the official naming of that color as "Debian Red" is a
result of the trademarking of our logo. Strangely though, the #D70A53
color does not match the color definition of the swirl (or the dot of
the "i") in the open logo, which has #A80030 instead.

Side note: wasn't using our name in the code name of some other software
product a dilution of our trademark? IANAL, but I suspect that it is.

It's probably too late to do something about a three-year-old codename,
though.