[Fedora-legal-list] Q:Trademarked logos in zocial font.

[Alec Leamas]

> On 05/06/2013 01:38 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> On 2013-05-06 19:32, Tom Callaway wrote:
>>> On 05/05/2013 06:41 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>>> As has been discussed on fedora-devel, I have an issue with the zocial
>>>> font package. The question is if this font because of it's use of
>>>> trademarked logos can't be used in Fedora.
>>>>
>>>> Any help out there?
>>>>
>>>> --alec
>>>>
>>>> Links:
>>>> Font overview:http://leamas.fedorapeople.org/tmp/zocial.png
>>>> Discussion on devel:
>>>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-May/182194.html
>>>> Review request (needing update, I know):
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956120
>>>> FPC ticket:https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/277
>>> This seems like a terrible idea. I'd strongly recommend that you not
>>> package it.
>>>
>>> ~tom
>>>
>>> ==
>>> Fedora Project
>> OK, last nail in the coffin. I will not package openerp7, this is just
>> too much hazzle.
>>
>> Since I will send this message upstream, could you possibly expand a
>> little on the motivation?
> Unless they have explicit permission to use the trademarks in their font
> (which I can't imagine they have), the font is clearly infringing upon
> the trademarks because it is placing those logos in contexts that imply
> that there is a relationship between the owners of those trademarks and
> any place the font is in use.
>
> That's a trivial lawsuit waiting to happen.
>
> ~tom'
Thanks for explanation. Upstream bug: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1177027



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