Chris Kloiber wrote:
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 07:35, David Krider wrote:Well let me add my 2 cents for you . I work in Franchise Development , and removing the (c) to make it look neater is a great idea , but , it is really going to put the stick in the hornets nest. You would think its no big deal , but they will have a legal field day with that one. I saw it happen to a Franchisee one time , cost him his business and alot of money.
Chris Kloiber wrote:Hey, I am just stating my opinion. Not looking for flames, not trying to
IANAL, nor do I play one on the net. However...Well, now, this is important. Chris, are you telling me - in your admittedly unprofessional opinion - that leaving the (C) on the image would have made the whole affair legit? I only took off the symbol - not to slip it under the company's radar who produced it - but to make it look neater. That was the *only* reason.
The "Powered by Red Hat" logo has the copyright intact, and I believe
there's something in the docs we include that specifically allows the
use of that logo on any webserver which is running on Red Hat Linux. So
the use of that logo would be allowed in that context.
Removing the copyright symbol in an attempt to get it professionally
mass produced is another matter. Besides, I've seen kits on case modding
websites to make your own case badges with professional looking results
from just about any 1" x 1" logo. That could easily work wonders with
one of the box-set stickers, and nobody needs to "feed the lawyers".
I only had 10 made because that was the minimum order. Does that qualify as "mass produced?"
To take another tack with this thread, everyone I've shown these things to has drooled over them. I think you guys could make some money selling them like you do shirts and such...
flame either. It just doesn't sound right to me. That's all.
Jim McConnell
