On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > You could make a screenshot from where the original icons are shown, > then re-encode those tiny 16x16px thingies into new *.ico files with > GIMP. This is sorta like taking a photograph (if in doubt, take an > actual photo), or a bitmap font (where neither the font nor the indi‐ > vidual glyphs fall under copyright law), so only trademark law matters, > and Don already said Debian can “probably” use them to refer to the > sites in question.
Debian has legal advice from SPI lawyers that screenshots are derivative works and thus are under the same license as the software they are derived from. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00016.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00018.html Trademarks are indeed irrelevant here. > I question that 16x16px logos fall under the copyright law at all. > Maybe some of the picture metadata, at best (hence the suggestion > to re-encode). I expect some creativity goes into cramming logos into such a small space but IANAL so... -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caktje6g0xe0qv5immdjnfxz6sx6-tv7qbf6jva1lukx_772...@mail.gmail.com
