On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:57:41AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > You could make a screenshot from where the original icons are shown, > > then re-encode those tiny 16x16px thingies into new *.ico files with > > GIMP. This is sorta like taking a photograph (if in doubt, take an > > actual photo), or a bitmap font (where neither the font nor the indi‐ > > vidual glyphs fall under copyright law), so only trademark law matters, > > and Don already said Debian can “probably” use them to refer to the > > sites in question. > > Debian has legal advice from SPI lawyers that screenshots are > derivative works and thus are under the same license as the software > they are derived from. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00016.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00018.html > > Trademarks are indeed irrelevant here.
Screenshots of games during play are not the same as logos. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150717222610.ga30...@glandium.org
