[Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#388571: awstats: Non-free Firefox icon included

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:05:14AM +0200, Christian Aichinger wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:40:54AM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> > /usr/share/awstats/icon/browser/firefox.png is Mozilla Firefox's
> > official logo, which is not modifiable. I don't know if just including
> > that icon can be a trademark violation.

> Looking around a bit, there are much more icons which seem
> troublesome, e.g. wwwroot/icon/browser/{msie_large.png,opera.png},
> wwwroot/icon/cpu/motorola.png, wwwroot/icon/os/win95.png, etc.

> AFAICS we can't distribute some of those files at all :-/

Why?  Do you know that these icons were copied from proprietary material?

For the most part, a trademark does not prevent you from using that logo in
reference to the genuine article.  The only reason the firefox logo is
currently a concern is that there is a copyrighted logo which was presumably
free but actually isn't, that a lot of people were copying.  If the icons
were created independently of the logo licensed by the Mozilla Foundation,
then there shouldn't be any need (under the DFSG or under trademark law) to
remove them.

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