[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] PDF icon: licensing concern & fix

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote at 11:10 (EDT) on Friday:
> Ok. That's not my area of expertise.  For what it's worth, all I'm
> saying is when I compare it to Adobe PDF logo, I don't see how this
> KDE PDF icon is using any of Adobe's actual trademarks in any way.

The question in trademark issues is usually one of "consumer confusion":
does someone believe, when they see that icon, that you're making
reference to Adobe products?

Adobe's graphic trademarks appear to be very similar to the KDE icon and
the alternative-GNOME one that Dan showed -- enough so that our analysis
was that Adobe might claim it was trademark infringement.

Will Adobe do so?  Do we expect Adobe to send a C&D letter to Evergreen
and Conservancy?  The answer to both those is 'no'.  Therefore, if the
Evergreen project feels they get a substantial benefit in some way from
using either icon, they should do so, and we'll talk further about the
risk.  But, if there's not substantial benefit there, then I don't see a
reason not to change one that has no chance of trademark infringement.

Also, be careful not to conflate trademark and copyright infringement
here.  You can infringe trademarks without infringing copyright, and
vice-versa.  Or, you can also infringe both at once.
-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy