Packaging software with included Trademark images

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Mon Aug 6 23:31:47 UTC 2007


I'm pre-reviewing lshw: Hardware Lister
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229591 now:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251019
The upstream source contains svg logos to represent some common hardware:
http://ezix.org/project/browser/packages/lshw/releases/B.02.11.01/src/gui/artwork
The upstream developer has stated:
"All the cliparts except the Intel logo were created from scratch using 
  Inkscape and are released under GPLv2 (cf. the tags in SVG files). The 
Intel logo was converted from the official Intel EPS."

Logos for AMD, Intel, bluetooth, usb, and images representing the form 
of various Apple products {with a visible apple logo} are amongst the 
other artwork.

My impression is that they we could not be include this artwork, unless 
upstream has received explicit permission from the owner's of each 
trademark to use the actual or re-implementation of the logo in open 
source software.

Can we include the logos ?

If not, can we patch the source to not use the affected logos when 
building the package - yet still include the full .tar.gz upstream code 
that includes the logos ?




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