[Bristolbathpm] T-Shirt... and you thought I'd forgotten ;)

[Paul Makepeace]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
>> http://perl.bristolbath.org/tshirt/front.png
>> http://perl.bristolbath.org/tshirt/back.png
>
> Actually, this just came up over on http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/
>
> That t-shirt back may be infringing the Perl Foundation's trademark.
> See http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_trademark for their claims.
>
> The camel claims are http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/usage/
>
> So, the widely-used perl emblems are non-free software and maybe even
> usuable for this group's T-shirts!  (Is it an official TPF Perl
> Mongers group, whatever that means?)
>
> Bad ORA!  Bad TPF!  Hurting your fans!

It's not bad anyone. They're protecting trademarks which they are
_legally_ required to do. In practice, all you need to do is ask
permission from ORA/TPF when you have the final design and they'll
rubberstamp it. It's lightweight. No need to get het up about it.

P

>
> Annoyed by this crap,
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