POI Logo legal matter

["Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>]

Hi All,

The committers are about to be asked to vote on the new POI logo.  While 
the recent user logo poll was not binding (as only committer votes are 
binding), I expect the majority of committers may cast their vote 
democratically.

Unfortunately, the logo that has won the poll is controversial.  Had I 
seen the Windows XP logo (I use Linux and sometimes w2k due to 
work/cross browser testing, but I always shower afterwards), I probably 
would have nixed this one.  However, my opinion is but that of a lay person.

 From my understanding the foundation employs council that is available, 
however not being a member of the foundation, I'd like to solicit the 
assistance of a foundation member to bring this issue to the foundation 
or said legal council.  

I've been told that the logo is potentially a problem:

a. because it looks too much like the windows xp logo
b. because it employs a coffee cup (which I think is unlikely) and 
therefore would peeve sun too.

I'd like to ask the legal reprentative to look at:

http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/news/images/logoRaPiGmbH8.png
results: http://vote.sparklit.com/poll.spark/640946

and tell us whether this logo is likely a trademark infringement on 
either issue.

In the event it is, we'll not submit it to the POI committers as a 
candidate.

Thanks,

Andy



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Re: POI Logo legal matter

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

I'd ask if the contributor could remove the "diamond" look so that it
looks more like steam and less like the Windows "flag", then see if we
need to run it by counsel. The cup part seems like a stretch to me too,
since it is a very different looking cup. But the diamond pattern does
seem a bit too close for comfort.

"Andrew C. Oliver" wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> The committers are about to be asked to vote on the new POI logo.  While
> the recent user logo poll was not binding (as only committer votes are
> binding), I expect the majority of committers may cast their vote
> democratically.
> 
> Unfortunately, the logo that has won the poll is controversial.  Had I
> seen the Windows XP logo (I use Linux and sometimes w2k due to
> work/cross browser testing, but I always shower afterwards), I probably
> would have nixed this one.  However, my opinion is but that of a lay person.
> 
>  From my understanding the foundation employs council that is available,
> however not being a member of the foundation, I'd like to solicit the
> assistance of a foundation member to bring this issue to the foundation
> or said legal council.
> 
> I've been told that the logo is potentially a problem:
> 
> a. because it looks too much like the windows xp logo
> b. because it employs a coffee cup (which I think is unlikely) and
> therefore would peeve sun too.
> 
> I'd like to ask the legal reprentative to look at:
> 
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/news/images/logoRaPiGmbH8.png
> results: http://vote.sparklit.com/poll.spark/640946
> 
> and tell us whether this logo is likely a trademark infringement on
> either issue.
> 
> In the event it is, we'll not submit it to the POI committers as a
> candidate.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy
> 
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