Question about icons related to a trademark in a package

Fabio Fantoni <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:47:10 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out what to do about packages that have 
icons that appear to be related to trademark.

Regarding the xapp-symbolic-icons package, that I want to add a 
prerequisite of cinnamon 6.6, I was trying to complete the 
debian/copyright and help fix it upstream as well, but I'm having 
trouble understanding what to do with icons that might be trademarked, 
particularly a Windows icon: 
https://github.com/xapp-project/xapp-symbolic-icons/issues/9#issuecomment-3686627626

Is this icon acceptable? And would the copyright part I tried to do be 
correct? Or is it not acceptable and should be replaced with one that 
doesn't use a similar or identical logo to Windows?

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