It's taken me some time to get on the same page with you, Fabio, and
understand the scale of the challenges here and what we can do about
them. It does feel like Clem with Mint should be able to clear this up
as Cinnamon originates there and we can both see that many potentially
trademarked logos are being included with Cinnamon (i.e. Facebook, Hulu,
Google).
What I've been able to put together so far is trademarked logos used by
anybody need to be approved for use by the company who holds the trademark.
It looks like there is another developer working with Clem on the
Cinnamon repo - Michael Webster. I'll see if I can reach him:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/tree/master
I don't believe those trademarked logos/icons can be covered by a
blanket GPL3 statement for Cinnamon. Someone needs to get express
permission from the trademark holder to use those logos. While these
companies would likely point you to icons/logos that would allow you to
use, you have to ask and some won't let you do it as you saw here:
https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-x-icons/issues/201
I'll keep looking into it, but here's what Meta/Facebook says about
using their logos in software applications:
https://www.meta.com/brand/resources/facebook/logo/
Cliff
On 10/3/2025 11:52 AM, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
I have updated the packaging:
https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/mint-x-icons
I also tried to enable licenserecon in salsa-ci, it don't detect
issues with actual d/copyright but probably don't detect correctly
about images:
https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/mint-x-icons/-/jobs/8392995
