Trademarked icons in digikam?

Fabian Vogt fabian at ritter-vogt.de
Thu May 10 12:39:44 BST 2018


Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2018, 13:05:12 CEST schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> In fact the icons are exactly the same than kipi-plugins, which is already
> packaged.

Yes, but it has the exact same issue. We just weren't aware of it before the
move made us look at the icons.

> The icons are not the same than trademarked one, of course. There are just
> an imitation with severals differences, as i can see.

That's actually worse.

Let me quote the Facebook brand guidelines:

"Don’t modify Facebook brand assets in any way"
"Don't use trademarks, names, domain names, logos or other content that
imitates or could be confused with Facebook"
"Don't use any icons, images or trademarks to represent Facebook other than
what is found on this resource center"

(https://en.facebookbrand.com/guidelines/brand, "Don'ts" section)

I would expect the guidelines for the other logos to be the same.

Cheers,
Fabian

> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2018-05-10 10:51 GMT+02:00 Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame at kde.org>:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > when digikam deprecated the software collection and merged the data in the
> > main repository, I noticed, while packaging git snapshots for openSUSE,
> > that
> > there are a number of potential trademarked icons in the repository (core/
> > data/icons):
> >
> > - dropbox
> > - facebook
> > - flickr
> > - gdrive
> > - imageshack
> >
> > and others.
> >
> > Were those icons put there in accordance to the trademark guidelines of
> > the
> > respective services? Otherwise, at least the most conscious distributions
> > won't be able to distribute digikam due to possible trademark usage
> > violations.
> >
> > --
> > Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team
> > KDE Science supporter
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> 







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