Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git homepage change

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, David Bryson <david@statichacks.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:40:11PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mike Hommey wrote:
>>>
>>> FWIW, I think the "mascot" or whatever it is supposed to be, on the
>>> top right end, is "safe", trademark/copyright-wise. It looks too much
>>> like ???????????????(D??mo-kun), the NHK mascot.
>>> http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E3%81%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%82%E3%81%8F%E3%82%93&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
>>
>> I think Scott mentioned at GitTogether that they paid the same artist
>> design some artwork for them including that tree munching monster and an
>> octopus.
>>
>> Scott do you care to elaborate ?
>
> I bought rights to the image from iStockPhoto, we can use it online
> for whatever we want to.  The only restriction is that we can't sell
> stuff with the image on it. I have no idea what NHK is, nor do I know
> how TM/copyright issues would work in this regard - (the site is
> hosted in the US, has NHK registered TM for that here?) - but I doubt
> it really matters.  If I get a cease and desist, I'll replace the
> image, but to me it doesn't seem close enough to infringe and I doubt
> they would care.
>
> Btw, I would also like to say in general that the response to this
> from emails sent to me personally (my address is at the bottom of the
> page) has been very positive and I've even received a few patches that
> are now live.
>
> Also, Miklos : your patch changes the format of the output and doesn't
> speed things up or anything, so I'm just sticking with the current
> script for now (unless I'm missing something).
>
> Boyd Gerber: I'm confused - the mailing list archive link on the home
> page points to the Gmane page, which is completely up to date.  Is
> there a link I'm missing?