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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] move cairo-dock to tainted because of trademark/patent issues</H1>
    <B>Michael Scherer</B> 
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<PRE>Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 &#224; 23:48 +0100, Florian Hubold a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> Am 09.11.2011 23:37, schrieb Michael Scherer:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Le mercredi 09 novembre 2011 &#224; 21:40 +0100, Florian Hubold a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; Am 09.11.2011 21:15, schrieb Michael Scherer:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
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</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; For the icons, what is the problem exactly, ie what icons are
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;&gt; copyrighted ?
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; Only linked the ml thread for the icons for reference. It is not said
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; which are trademarked (and more important by whom) i guess it could
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; be seen as a derivated work to the original lemmings game from DMA design.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; But as the game pingus is existing, and has not been sued,
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; i don't think they have a valid point there.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Maybe the problem is somewhere else, like a icon of windows, stuff like
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; that. Hence the question.
</I>&gt;<i> No, only animated penguins in there, I've attached the compressed
</I>&gt;<i> directory if you want to take a look.
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I guess the superman could have been a issue ( dc-comics want to make
sure the trademark is well defended ). But that seems far fetched since
pingus is in fedora.

The tarball cairo-dock-plugins has however some trademarked icons in
Scooby-Do/data ( ebay, amazon, firefox, yahoo ).

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