Bluecurve icons derivative works

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Jul 24 14:29:01 UTC 2004


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>

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