[OSGeo-Discuss] Geopaparazzi released

[Ken Lord]

Funny, it was my impression that with a Thesis, most universities took
matters of permission and copyright infringement very seriously ...
sure, a similar logo is nothing like that case where a doctoral
candidate used a native group's DNA from an unrelated study without
permission, but cases like that have no doubt sensitized the system.

Ken

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Bob Basques
<Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
> What if they used it to promote a superior product?   Sorry, couldn't
> resist. . . .  :c)
>
> bobb
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>>>> Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>>> 2) will I get lawsuited if I have the osgeo compass in my PhD thesis
>>> (available in the net) and in a couple of presentations I gave in the
>>> last year at conferences (all available on slideshare)? It would be
>>> bad to take them back, but if I have to...
>>>
>>
>> I can't imagine no one in OSGeo law-suiting you because you've given
>> credit to the Foundation on your projects, even doing it in a
>> wrong-for-lawyers way.
>
> The problem is not in you getting sued but if say a large closed
> source GIS company started using  the OSGEO logo to promote its
> inferior product it would be harder for OSGEO to sue them as it had
> not defended its logo in the past.
>
> Ian
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> Ian Turton
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