Re: Origins of debian swirl / does Debian want to keep its trademark?

Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine that the Elektrostore swirl is independently created starting from a straight brush stroke. Now, Debian really ought to be complaining about this.

Re: Origins of debian swirl / does Debian want to keep its trademark?

Scripsit Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: it might be argued that by making the swirl blue and turning it such that it invokes an the idea of an e, it is not anymore sufficiently confusable with Debian's logo that the trademark is violated. You don't think it is?

Re: Origins of debian swirl / does Debian want to keep its trademark?

Scripsit Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm wrote: On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine that the Elektrostore swirl is independently created starting from a straight brush stroke. Now, Debian really ought to be complaining about this. There was an attempt to make this

Re: Origins of debian swirl / does Debian want to keep its trademark?

Henning Makholm wrote: On the other hand, it is difficult to imagine that the Elektrostore swirl is independently created starting from a straight brush stroke. http://henning.makholm.net/debian/swirls.xcf is the logo bar from www.elektrostore.se, with a genuine Debian swirl in another layer -