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Icon is a direct copy of Chromium icon #3

Closed bbhtt closed 2 months ago

bbhtt commented 2 months ago

@rany2 Hello at Flathub we are tracking a bunch of applications with trademark violations or icons that are a direct copy of other applications' icons.

The current icon of UGC is exactly a copy of the Chromium icon.

Please try to use your own icon for the application to avoid trademark issues and confusing people.

You can find some resources for icon guidelines in https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-guidelines#app-icon.

I think a two month period is reasonable for everyone to come to a solution here.

PF4Public commented 2 months ago

Is it only the icon that catches your eye? Fascinating! How about the "google" part in the name? Ungoogled-chromium is essentially Chromium, it was never "marketed" as a separate "product".

Vendicated commented 1 month ago

It does not seem like the Chromium icon is trademarked. Much to the contrary, it is open "source" and thus using it should not pose any issues.

From the Chromium branding docs: "By default, chromium will build with the open source chromium assets and branding. [...] The main reason for this is that the Google Chrome logo and related assets is a trademark which we don‘t want to release under Chromium’s open source license."

To avoid [...] confusing people

Why would anyone get confused by the icon? Ungoogled chromium is chromium, so I don't understand what would be confusing about using the Chromium icon. If anything, it's more confusing to use an icon that differs from upstream

a-n-d-r commented 1 month ago

Related - new icon proposals: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/discussions/1756

bbhtt commented 1 month ago

Is it only the icon that catches your eye? Fascinating! How about the "google" part in the name?

If you want to change the name to remove trademarked parts, it's fine and you can do it. We did have a discussion about the changing the name too in #flathub with rany2 that day but no decision was made due to some issues. Also at the moment I was tracking issues with icons, only.

If you plan on changing the name, please coordinate the change in the upstream repo first. (I said the same thing about icon too). It'd be very weird if only the Flathub listing had a different name and icon.

Ungoogled-chromium is essentially Chromium, it was never "marketed" as a separate "product".

It is listed as a separate app on Flathub, hence the first need for a separate icon. If you think it is not a separate product and is the same as Chromium, there should not be any need to host it as a separate application since Flathub already hosts Chromium.

It does not seem like the Chromium icon is trademarked. Much to the contrary, it is open "source" and thus using it should not pose any issues.

I don't have the legal expertise here but https://about.google/brand-resource-center/logos-list/ lists the Chromium logo as a trademark owned by Google.

I think that changing the name (if you want)/icon here is a quick and easy win over hoping no issues (legal or otherwise) arise in the future both to the project and on Flathub. We don't really have the resources to go against the likes of Google here.