Hello, in our open-source project Foreman we use various Linux distro icons, example screenshot: http://theforeman.org/static/images/screenshots/host_listing.png Now, we have a patch from our community which adds support for IBM AIX UNIX and it was coming with logo created from the official graphics: http://www.recarta.co.uk/sites/default/files/images/ibm-aix-logo_0.jpg (This is just a random copy returned by Google) We have removed that from the patch and accepted it without the provided logo for now, it was apparently resampled (smaller) version of the official IBM logo. Now, there is quite strict trademark policy by IBM which explicitly disallows the use of their logos: http://www.ibm.com/legal/us/en/copytrade.shtml On the other hand, they allow "fair use" to some degree, which is not explicitly specified in that document. Can be icon of that (small) size considered as "fair use"? It is legal to draw similar logo in GIMP (blue circle, green filling with "AIX" in white) and then scale that down to size of an icon and use that in our software? If not, do we have any other options? I guess the second option could be to create similar logo which would be different from the one presented (different colors, font maybe). What kind of changes is considered as different enough? To be clear, Foreman is not yet in Fedora, but we are planning to include it as all our dependencies get accepted. It's a long process, we provide Fedora repositories with our software for now. Thanks for help and happy New Year all! -- Later, Lukas "lzap" Zapletal irc: lzap #theforeman _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
