Not obvious enough for the average person not to think the same company could be behind bith HMR and Ubuntu though.
I emailed canonical about this a few weeks ago (there was another thread on the subject)
Here's the reply I got
Originally Posted by Canonical Reply
lol, are you on crack?
Seriously it's a blatant rip-off of the Ubuntu logo.
If I was to take Nike's tick logo, rotate it slightly and make it thinner would that be ok?
No of course it wouldn't and I have Nike's lawyers on my **** quicker than you can boot my Ubuntu 9.04 driven Asus EeePC.
First of all, I have said multiple times that the HMR Group logo is remarkably similar to the Ubuntu logo.
That is a fact.
There are two things being said in this thread that are not facts:
1.) HMR Group ripped-off the logo.This is obviously not a fact. It's speculation. Can you honestly tell me that you can automatically ascertain the intentions of HMR Group by simply looking at both its logo and Ubuntu's logo? Show me evidence that HMR Group purposely stole Ubuntu's logo and I will retract this statement.2.) The HMR Group logo is a copy-and-paste duplicate of the Ubuntu logo.I have demonstrated by superimposing the Ubuntu logo over the HMR Group logo that it is impossible that HMR Group simply copied and pasted Ubuntu's logo and changed the colors. For it to be an exact copy-and-paste duplicate of the Ubuntu logo, all I would have had to do was rotate one of the logos and they would have overlapped perfectly. I have shown that there are distinct differences in the two logos that make them not identical.
But wait a minute!
What's wrong with downloading and using someone else's intellectual property for free?
I thought FOSS advocates had problems with the principle of IP ownership and control?
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and coincidentally whether or not it was made from scratch it is still a blatant rip off of the ubuntu logo witch is copyrighted by Canonical. it was probably "made" by some small company that though it would never be noticed.(as if though the 20millon or more ubuntu user would never see it.)
A realtors web-site logo does not fit in the category on non-cormercial. Anyways its trademark you can use it as long as you respect the agreement.
This draft trademark policy is itself published under the CC-BY-SA license, you are welcome to base your own project trademark policies off it, just let others use your changes and give credit to the Ubuntu project as the original source!
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