Red Hat society is international and huge. Merchandising alone is a major industry. Going after the Red Hat software company for trademark infringement would not be any fun in the first place, the logos are distinctive, the business millieus intersect very little, and neither can claim they invented the phrase "red hat" so I doubt there is a problem.
P.S. Here is the poem that started it all. --------------------------------
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick the flowers in other people's gardens . . . And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at a go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children. We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Do you know whether this poem is public domain/GPL'd/Open Source.
Citing it as you have done certainly qualifies for coverage under fair use.
Rodney
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