I would like to distribute an application icon that will fit with the style of the Bluecurve theme. To do this I have taken some of the icons from redhat-artwork to use as bases. This makes my icon a derivate work of the redhat-artwork icons.
Is distributing my derivative work allowed?
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 01:55, Aaron Schlaegel wrote:
I would like to distribute an application icon that will fit with the style of the Bluecurve theme. To do this I have taken some of the icons from redhat-artwork to use as bases. This makes my icon a derivate work of the redhat-artwork icons.
Is distributing my derivative work allowed?
Yes, the icons are GPL.
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 10:21:00AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
Yes, the icons are GPL.
But you can't refer to them as derived from Bluecurve, can you? Isn't that name trademarked?
That doesn't mean (Red Hat's trademark policy notwithstanding) you can't use that term descriptively. The icons _are_ derived from Bluecurve, and there's no reasonable way to say that without using the trademark.
PS: I'm certainly not a lawyer. But I can use google. :) So you don't have to take my word for it: http://www.cll.com/articles/article.cfm?articleid=32#2
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 10:21, seth vidal wrote:
Yes, the icons are GPL.
But you can't refer to them as derived from Bluecurve, can you? Isn't that name trademarked?
You can't use the Bluecurve trademark in not-allowed ways, the simplest guideline is probably to not say "Bluecurve" at all, but the real legal rules are more complicated than that I guess.
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