[OT] Microsoft Alumni Network's Logo

[Gilles Gravier]

If the Ubuntu logo is like the Java "Duke" logo, then it's covered with 
an open source license (Duke usage is covered by BSD licence). This 
means that as with everything covered by an open source license (see for 
reference point 3 at : http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd) it must allow 
derived works... And this can be claimed to be a derived works.

Now it all depends on how the Ubuntu logo is distributed, but I wouldn't 
be surprised that it came with either a BSD license (which would allow 
derived commercial works like T-Shirts) or GPL (which makes it more 
complex to create such derived commercial works). In which case, what we 
see here may be a despicable, but certainly legitimate use of the nice 
Ubuntu logo.

We just need to be careful, possibly with a "don't fall to false logos" 
campain... but a lawsuit won't help.

Gilles.

Matthew Voss wrote:
> Why would we want to do that? Is the logo of any value?
> Goo
>
> On 6/27/07, *Chanchao* <custom at freenet.de <mailto:custom at freenet.de>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 13:05 +0200, Davide Corio wrote:
>     > http://msanet.org/
>     >
>     > take a look at the logo :)
>
>     I think this is actually the second time they did this? Wasnt'
>     there an
>     MSN-related logo that was the same idea?
>
>     This one is even more blatant.
>
>     I know Ubuntu is 'above this' but I think it's about time someone
>     nailed
>     them on this in court.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Chanchao
>
>
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