hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 27 14:31:34 UTC 2007


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 08:38 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
>>>> I'd like to point out that there is likely a trademark issue involved
>>>> here as well.
> 
>>> The package is produced by HP-Development, so I think they can use their
>>> own logo.  :)
> 
>> Firefox is produced by Mozilla, yet we can't use their logo without
>> going through their process when it comes to patching it. 
> 
> Firefox isn't GPL'd.  The GPL gives us the right to modify and redistribute
> without limitation.

Firefox *is* under GPL. The whole codebase is trilicensed under 
MPL/GPL/LGPL. The license of a software has zero effects on the usage of 
a logo which maybe protected by a trademark.

Rahul




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