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Description:	openDesktop.org artwork should be a place for individuals to upload/download artwork and customization items. It has become apparent that some individuals have decided to brand certain content with either an organization name/logo or their own internet handle. I don't want to see the International Pigmy Farmers logo on my window manager. I don't want to see joeschmoe's username on my wallpaper. OKAY: - Generic use content. This is content that will work for pretty much any distro/organization. NOT OKAY: - Branded content. (DON'T DO THIS!) ALTERNATIVES: - If you must brand your content, PLEASE INCLUDE AN UNBRANDED VERSION. For those of you who share this view, this group is created for you.
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Yep

by marcaemus on: Mar 1 2009

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One of the (many) reasons I use open-source is to get away from the constant barrage of branding and advertising messages. This includes distro branding which must be the most pointless type of all.

...when all the worlds collide.
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Re: Yep

by imitation on: Apr 11 2009

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One of the things i dislike about this platform is that people post so many branded wallpapers, iconsets an even window decos. I like a lot of them but can't (or refuse to) use them because they have a big fat suse/fedora/ubuntu branding in them.

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This group sucks

by cypherpunk on: Apr 8 2009

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Idiotic

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Just for reference guys

by cb2k on: Apr 12 2009

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Ubuntu's Trademark Policy

Trademark Policy

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!

The objective of the Ubuntu trademark policy is to encourage widespread use of the Ubuntu trademarks by the Ubuntu community while controlling that use in order to avoid confusion on the part of Ubuntu users and the general public, to maintain the value of the image and reputation of the trademarks and to protect them from inappropriate or unauthorised use.

The sections below describe what is allowed, what isn't allowed, and cases in which you should ask permission.

If you have any doubt, please contact us and a member of our trademark's team will be in touch with you shortly.

If you are aware a breach or misuse of the Ubuntu trademarks in any way, we would appreciate you bringing this to our attention. Please contact us so that we can investigate this further.

The Trademarks

Canonical owns a number of trademarks and these include UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, EDUBUNTU, and XUBUNTU. The trademarks are registered in both word and logo form. Any mark ending with the letters UBUNTU or BUNTU is sufficiently similar to one or more of the trademarks that permission will be needed in order to use it. This policy encompasses all marks, in word and logo form, collectively referred to as “Trademarks”.
Permitted Use

Certain usages of the Trademarks are fine and no specific permission from us is needed.

Community Advocacy. Ubuntu is built by, and largely for, its community. We share access to the Trademarks with the entire community for the purposes of discussion, development and advocacy. We recognise that most of the open source discussion and development areas are for non-commercial purposes and will allow the use of the trademarks in this context, provided:

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the Trademark is used in a manner consistent with the Usage Guidelines below
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there is no commercial intent behind the use
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what you are referring to is in fact Ubuntu. If someone is confused into thinking that what isn't Ubuntu is in fact Ubuntu, you are probably doing something wrong
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there is no suggestion (through words or appearance) that your project is approved, sponsored, or affiliated with Ubuntu or its related projects unless it actually has been approved by and is accountable to the Ubuntu Community Council

Derived works. The ability to customise Ubuntu to meet your specific needs is one of the great strengths of free software in general, and Ubuntu in particular. While we encourage customisation and derivation of Ubuntu, we must balance that freedom with the integrity of the Trademarks and the quality which they represent. To help reach that balance, we have established the following guidelines and definitions.

We recognise and encourage the concept of a “remix.” Remixes are derived versions of Ubuntu, and it is intended that any software and hardware certifications will apply to a Remix. Therefore the changes from the official Ubuntu product must be minimal to be permitted to use the Trademarks. These changes can include configuration changes through the existing Ubuntu configuration management tools, changes to artwork and graphical themes and some variance in package selection. In general, a Remix can have applications from the Ubuntu archives added, or default applications removed, but removing or changing any infrastructure components (e.g., shared libraries or desktop components) will result in changes too large for the resulting product to be called by a Trademark. Note that if the nature of the product's divergence from Ubuntu changes, the Remix naming and Trademark use may no longer apply.

Therefore, if you are creating a derivative of Ubuntu, you may use the Trademarks in association with the software product provided:

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the changes are minimal and unsubstantial, as described above
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there is no commercial intent associated with the new product
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the Trademark is used in a way that makes it clear that your project is a development effort related to the Ubuntu source, but that the software you are working upon is not in fact Ubuntu as distributed by the Ubuntu project. The approved naming scheme to facilitate this is through designation “Remix”. For instance, a new ISO image which has been packaged special tools for software developers could be called “Ubuntu, Developers Remix”, or an image was has been created with Thai language packs could be called "Ubuntu Thai Remix". Words such as "Edition" and "Version" should be avoided, as they have specific meaning within the Ubuntu project. Prefixes, such as “ThaiBuntu” should also be avoided. Any other naming scheme will require explicit permission.
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there is no suggestion (through words or appearance) that your project is approved, sponsored, or affiliated with Ubuntu or its related projects unless it has been approved by and is governed by the Ubuntu Community Council.

If you are producing a new product which is based on Ubuntu but which has more substantial changes than those described above as a Remix, you are allowed to state (and we would encourage you to do so) that your product is "derived from Ubuntu", "based on Ubuntu", or "a derivative of Ubuntu" but you may not use the Trademarks to refer to your product. In some cases you may be allowed to use the Trademarks, but we'll need to discuss that. In that event, these products will need a trademark license, and such a license can be revoked if the nature of your divergence from Ubuntu changes. Products which include very invasive changes, such as a new kernel, the inclusion of packages which are not part of the Ubuntu repositories, or anything else that significantly impacts the technical quality or user experience would fall into this category are unlikely to be approved. (Note that if you are including packages which are not part of the Ubuntu repositories, we encourage you to work within the community processes to submit and maintain those packages within the repositories in order to minimise this issue.)

Building on Ubuntu or for Ubuntu. If you are producing new software which is intended for use with or on Ubuntu, you may use the Trademark in a way which indicates the intent of your product. For example, if you are developing a system management tool for Ubuntu, acceptable project titles would be "System Management for Ubuntu" or "Ubuntu Based Systems Management". We would strongly discourage, and likely would consider to be problematic, a name such as UbuntuMan, Ubuntu Management, ManBuntu, etc. Furthermore, you may not use the Trademarks in a way which implies an endorsement where that doesn't exist, or which attempts to unfairly or confusingly capitalise on the goodwill or brand of the project.

Commentary and parody. The Ubuntu trademarks are designed to cover use of a mark to imply origin or endorsement by the project. When a user downloads something called Ubuntu, they should know it comes from the Ubuntu project. This helps Ubuntu build a reputation that will not be damaged by confusion around what is, and isn't, Ubuntu. Using the trademarks in your discussion, commentary, criticism or parody, in ways that unequivocally do not imply endorsement, is permissible. Anyone is free to write articles, create websites, blog about, or talk about Ubuntu -- as long as it's clear to everyone -- including people completely unfamiliar with Ubuntu -- that they are simply referring to Ubuntu and in no way speaking for Canonical, or the Ubuntu project.

We reserve the right to review all usage within the open source community, and to object to any usage that appears to overstep the bounds of discussion and good-faith non-commercial development. In any event, once a project has left the open source project phase or otherwise become a commercial project, this policy does not authorise any use of the Trademarks in connection to that project.
Restricted use that requires a trademark license

Permission from us is necessary to use any of the Trademarks under any circumstances other than those specifically permitted above. These include:

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Any commercial use.
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Use on or in relation to a software product that includes or is built on top of a product supplied by us, if there is any commercial intent associated with that product.
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Use in a domain name or URL.
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Use for merchandising purposes, e.g. on t-shirts and the like.
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Use of a name which includes the letters BUNTU in relation to computer hardware or software.
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Services relating to any of the above.

If you wish to have permission for any of the uses above or for any other use which is not specifically referred to in this policy, please contact us and we'll let you know as soon as possible if your proposed use is permissible. Note that due to the volume of mail we receive, it may take up to a week to process your request. Permission may only be granted subject to certain conditions and these may include the requirement that you enter into an agreement with us to maintain the quality of the product and/or service which you intend to supply at a prescribed level.

While there may be exceptions, it is very unlikely that we will approve Trademark use in the following cases:

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Use of a Trademark in a company name.
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Use of a Trademark in a domain name which has a commercial intent. The commercial intent can range from promotion of a company or product, to collecting revenue generated by advertising.
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The calling of any software or product by the name UBUNTU (or another related Trademark), unless that software or product is a substantially unmodified Ubuntu product, or properly labelled as a "Remix" as described above.
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Use in combination with any other marks or logos. This include use of a Trademark in a manner that creates a "combined mark," or use that integrates other wording with the Trademark in a way that the public may think of the use as a new mark (for example Club Ubuntu or UbuntuBooks, or in a way that by use of special fonts or presentation with nearby words or images conveys an impression that the two are tied in some way).
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Use in combination with any product or service which is presented as being Certified or Official or formally associated with us or our products or services.
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Use in a way which implies an endorsement where that doesn't exist, or which attempts to unfairly or confusingly capitalise on the goodwill or brand of the project.
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Use of a Trademark in a manner that disparages Ubuntu, Canonical or its products and is not clearly third-party parody.
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On or in relation to a software product which constitutes a substantially modified version of a product supplied by the Ubuntu project, that is to say with material changes to the code, or services relating to such a product.
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In a title or metatag of a web page whose sole intention or result is to influence search engine rankings or result listings, rather than for discussion, development or advocacy of the Trademarks.

Logo Usage Guidelines

Our logos are presented in multiple colours and it is important that their visual integrity be maintained. It is therefore preferable that the logos only be used in their standard form but if you should feel the need to alter them in any way you should keep the following guidelines in mind. It should also be borne in mind that the more you wish to vary our logos from their standard form the smaller is the chance that we will be able to approve your proposed use.

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If presented in multiple colours, the logo should only use the “official” logo colours.
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You may use transparency and gradient/depth tools but should retain the “official” colours.
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A monochrome version may be acceptable in certain situations, if the use requires it (e.g. desktop backgrounds).
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Any scaling must retain the original proportions of the logo.

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Debian is Cool with it!

by cb2k on: Apr 12 2009

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The logo with Debian is released under the following license, due to ongoing concerns about trademarks.

Copyright (c) 1999 Software in the Public Interest
This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone to refer to the Debian project, but does not indicate endorsement by the project.

Note: we would appreciate that you make the image a link to http://www.debian.org/ if you use it on a web page.

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Copyrights How to use them.

by cb2k on: Apr 12 2009

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Copyright notices, and how to use them to best effect in protecting your work.

1. What is a copyright notice?

A piece of text which accompanies a work and expresses the rights and wishes of the owner(s).
2. Do I need a notice?

It is strongly recommended that you include one on your work, it will:
* Announce that copyright exists in the work.
* Make it clear who is the owner.
* Deter infringement.

By having a copyright notice you are helping to prevent infringement occurring.
3. Where should the notice be placed?

The rule to adopt is to ensure that anyone with access to your work is aware of the copyright. If your work can be broken up into several pieces, then the notice should appear on each part. If it would normally be viewed as a whole then one will suffice.
* If you are writing a book, you should only need one inside the front cover.
* Leaflets, commercial documents, etc. should have one on each item.
* Web pages should have one on every page.
* In the music industry, one is placed on the CD, cassette or LP itself, and one is included on any accompanying sleeve or booklet.
* Photographs and designs will have one at the bottom or on the reverse of the work
* Manuscripts: A single notice on the front will normally suffice.

Include acknowledgements for any images, excerpts etc. that you have used which are not your own, and ensure that you obtain permission before you use anyone else’s work.
4. What does a notice consist of?
1. "Copyright"

Some countries will not accept the symbol alone, they also require the word "Copyright" to appear in order to consider the notice valid. Using the word ensures that there can be no confusion.
2. "©"

The normally recognised symbol. Most countries across the world accept this as the correct manner of displaying copyright.
3. Year of publication

In case of a dispute of ownership of a work, the date plays an important part. If your work was developed and published before any potential opponents then you can usually expect to win any case which challenges your rights.

In the case of work which is continually updated, (for example a web site), the year of publication may be shown as a period from first publication until the most recent update, (i.e. 2000-2004)
4. Copyright owner’s name

This may only be one person, or it may be a collective, a band, group or team for example.

If there is one person who owns the rights to a work, then his/her name will appear on its own. If however, your work is owned by several people then you may choose to include the name of each member of the collective, or include the name of the collective itself.

This would give your copyright notice the following appearance: Copyright © 2004 Bobby Smith.
5. Title of work (optional)

You may wish to include this if you have several small works under one title. You can put either the overall title of the work or the title of the smaller work in the notice. The title is normally placed at the beginning.
6. Phonogram rights in sound recordings "phonogram copyright symbol"

Sound recordings have a right separate from the underlying musical composition, and a sound recordings should carry a phonogram copyright notice (denoted by the P in a circle) for the recording itself. The standard "©" notice should also be used, but in the case of sound recordings this is used to protect the cover design, lyric sheets or other printed material included with the sound recording.

In our example, this would give the appearance of the notice as Copyright © 2004 Bobby Smith, phonogram copyright symbol 2004 Bobby Smith.

Tip: On most computers the phonogram copyright symbol symbol can be found within the Webdings font.

The information you have read so far gives you the minimum that both the Universal Copyright Convention and the UK Copyright Service suggest you include in your copyright notice. You may also wish to increase your notice in order to clarify any further wishes you have as the copyright owner, this is dealt with in the following sections.
Extending your copyright notice
7. Why extend your notice?

In some cases you may wish to permit certain activities, in others you may wish to make it clear that you are withholding all rights, or require the user to apply for a licence to carry out certain actions. To do this you should include a statement that explicitly sets out these terms, the statement should appear as a sentence after the copyright notice.
8. Wording your statement

There are several items to think about when wording your statement. Decide in relation to your work, what you wish to permit. Be specific in your wording, make it clear what you will allow and what is prohibited.

Probably the best starting place is to think from the point of view of withholding all rights and then carefully word any allowances as exceptions, making sure it is clear that these are the only allowances you will make.

Here are some areas to consider:
1. Copying, duplication, reproduction

The right to produce a copy of the work

Do you wish certain groups to be able to copy your work? if so what terms would you attach?
2. Selling, hiring

Normally this would be expressly forbidden without the copyright holders consent.
3. Distribution

You may for example have written a shareware program which you will allow to be duplicated and distributed freely so long as you are identified as the author.
4. Commercial or personal use

Will you allow your work to be used differently by certain groups or individuals?

Educational or private study use is generally permitted under law in any case, but you may want to allow copying for private use but not for commercial gain.
5. Licenses

For software, commercial and educational documents in particular, the copyright notice may carry information about obtaining a licence to reproduce the work.

By not obtaining a licence, use of the work may be considered in breach of copyright.
6. Right to be identified as the author

If for example, the work is distributed without your control, you will wish to ensure that you are still identified as the author/copyright owner.

Note: Acts done in the course of private research or study, criticism or news reporting do not normally constitute an infringement.
9. Examples of copyright statements
* "All rights reserved"

A simple cover all statement. This is the most commonly used statement, and perhaps the clearest, and covers most eventualities. It simply means that you withhold all rights to the maximum extent allowable under law.
* "Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording will constitute an infringement of copyright."

Another cover all statement, this one is designed for use on sound recordings, but can easily be adapted to apply to other types of work.

The wording makes it clear that the authors rights are taken very seriously. For maximum effect you can combine (a) and (b).
* "Permission granted to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited."

For businesses and organisations this kind of statement can be of mutual benefit as allowing reproduction may help to promote their message.
* "May be used free of charge. Selling without prior written consent prohibited. Obtain permission before redistributing. In all cases this notice must remain intact."

This is the type of notice often used for software distributed as "freeware" or "shareware", by specifying that the copyright notice remains intact you ensure that all copies will identify you as the author.

Remember, copyright notices are straightforward statements, there is no need to get tied up with legal jargon, the point is to state your wishes clearly and succinctly.

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A brief intro to copyright

by cb2k on: Apr 12 2009

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The Basics
Copyright law secures for the creator of a creative effort the exclusive right to control who can make copies, or make works derived from the original work. There are a lot of subtleties and international variations but that's the gist of it. If you create something, and it fits the definition of a creative work, you get to control who can make copies of it and how they make copies, with some important exceptions.

You can also sell or licence this right, or, if you do the work for somebody who hired you to do it, they buy this right in advance.

Creative Work
The first big issue involves defining what it is to make a creative work. The law requires that it exist in some tangible form -- it can't just be in your head or sailing through the ether, it has to be on disk, paper, carved in stone (sculpture) or the like. It has to be creative (that's a tough one for lawyers to define) and that means it can't just be factual data. But most things you write in English (or C++) are going to be creative works, plus anything you photograph or sculpt or draw or record. (What you say isn't copyrighted until it's put onto tape -- it has to be in tangible form.) Anything you write and post to USENET is almost certainly a creative, copyrightable work. Anything you post-process with a computer (like object code) is a derivative work, still copyrighted.

You can also do creative editing or collecting work. So that while facts can't be copyrighted, clever, creative organization of the facts can be. This is called a compilation copyright and it's somewhat complex.

There are some specific exceptions in some countries. Fonts as printed on paper can't be copyrighted for historical reasons. Nothing done by the U.S. government can be copyrighted inside the USA.

And of course you can't copyright something somebody else did without their permission, or derive your work from their work.
Making copies
In its simplest form making copies is making copies. Computers have added some recent complications, like the temporary copies in packet buffers or on screens, and copies left on backup tape. But you can go pretty far by assuming that just about any computerized operation on a work involves copying it.

And simply, the copyright holder gets to say if you can do this. But that's where it all gets modified by the issues of ...
Commerce
Most of copyright has to do with commerce. In fact, one major reason it's there is that most people believe that if you let people have copyrights and make money from them, it strongly encourages the creation and productive exploitation of creative works, which is a good thing in most people's book. Copyright is also about control of one's creations -- particularly in most non-U.S. countries which explicitly recognize "moral copyrights."

But still, commerce is king. So while a copyright holder can stop you from copying something, usually they would much rather find some way to charge you for copying it. So while some worry that copyright can give rather strong powers to the author, the truth is that the market brings it all into balance.

It also means that to be enforced, copyrights have to have some commercial value. Nobody sane is going to file lawsuits over things like ordinary e-mail messages and USENET postings that have minimal commercial value, if any. You should, however, try to comply with the wishes of authors.

You also have to watch it on USENET and the web. These are no longer tiny places. Posting here is honest-to-goodness publication, sometimes to an audience of hundreds of thousands if not millions. You can seriously damage the commercial value of something by giving it free to such a large audience, all with the touch of a button.
Fair Use / Fair Dealing
There is a complex doctrine associated with copyright law which allows certain types of copying without permission in areas where it is felt that some more important social principles would be violated otherwise.

The "fair use" doctrine (fair dealing in Canada and some other nations) in its purest form, lets a film critic include a clip from a film in her review to illustrate a point. Since negative critics would never get permission to do this, the fair use exemption exists to stop copyright law from being used to stifle criticism.

This means that if you are doing things like comment on a copyrighted work, making fun of it, teaching about it or researching it, you can make some limited use of the work without permission. For example you can quote excerpts to show how poor the writing quality is. You can teach a course about T.S. Eliot and quote lines from his poems to the class to do so. Some people think fair use is a wholesale licence to copy if you don't charge or if you are in education, but it isn't. If you want to republish other stuff without permission and think you have a fair use defence, you should read the more detailed discussions of the subject you will find through the links above.

Fair Use has also seen some expansion in recent days, to things like time-shifting video recordings, computer backups, space-shifting media files and more.
To use the net
There's a pretty simple rule when it comes to the net. If you didn't write it, and you want to reproduce it, ask the creator, or assertain that it meets the complex public domain rules if it's pretty old. Most people don't really need to know much more than this. If you do, check the other documents.
Some legal basics
Under the Berne copyright convention, which almost all major nations have signed, every creative work is copyrighted the moment it is fixed in tangible form. No notice is necessary, though it helps legal cases. No registration is necessary, though it's needed later to sue. The copyright lasts until 70 years after the author dies. Facts and ideas can't be copyrighted, only expressions of creative effort.

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Unbranded Artwork

Yep

One of the (many) reasons I use open-source is to get away from the constant barrage of branding and advertising messages. This includes distro branding which must be the most pointless type of all.

Re: Yep

+1 One of the things i dislike about this platform is that people post so many branded wallpapers, iconsets an even window decos. I like a lot of them but can't (or refuse to) use them because they have a big fat suse/fedora/ubuntu branding in them.

This group sucks

Idiotic

Just for reference guys

Debian is Cool with it!

Copyrights How to use them.

A brief intro to copyright

+1
One of the things i dislike about this platform is that people post so many branded wallpapers, iconsets an even window decos. I like a lot of them but can't (or refuse to) use them because they have a big fat suse/fedora/ubuntu branding in them.