Trademarked icons in digikam?

[Gilles Caulier]

In all case, if the icons are problematic from the right viewpoint, we can
always drop the icons and replace it by the generic "internet" one from
Oxygen or another set. there is not technical issue to process these
changes.

Gilles

2018-05-11 12:34 GMT+02:00 Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>:

> If I look through the icons here under openSUSE, I find some in choqok,
> breeze
> or oxygen5. Are these icons also problematic? If I understand the
> guidelines
> correctly, they must not be changed in appearance. We could change that. I
> was
> recently porting Dropbox to new API and read the guidelines and I think
> the
> use of Dropbox icons is okay. Dropbox has activated the digiKam uploader
> without complaint. Which solution do you think would be the right one?
>
> Maik
>
> Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2018, 13:39:44 CEST schrieb Fabian Vogt:
> > 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
> > > > GPG key ID: A29D259B
>
>
>
>
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