[uae] Re: Icon for E-UAE Cocoa

  • From: Dennis Smith <dennis48066@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: 29 Apr 2006 19:55:25 -0500

Hello Richard,

On 04/29/2006, you wrote:
> Hi Daniel

> On Friday 28 April 2006 13:03, Daniel Pimley wrote:
>> I just whipped up an icon for E-UAE Cocoa on my Mac. I don't know if
...
>> http://www.pimley.net/projects/downloads/euae_icon.jpg
>> http://www.pimley.net/projects/downloads/euae_icon.dmg

> Looks good.

> Several people have sent me icons in the past, and I've always shied away
> from  using them because they stomp on somebody's (generally Amiga's)
> trademarks.  The flip side, of-course, is how to create a
> recognizable/understandable icon  for an Amiga emulator which doesn't use
> Amiga's IP somehow - whether it's the  tick, the boing ball, the
> Kickstart1.3 insert-disk screen, or whatever. 
> Using a Apple trademark would be more dangerous, since Apple actually has
> some  cash to pay lawyers with. 

> I don't know. What could happen? A cease-and-desist from Amiga and/or
> Apple? 
> Any thoughts, anybody?

The Euae icon I submitted last time avoided trademarks and did not refer to
any  particular computer system. However it's in glow-icon format for Amiga
OS4. Here it is again...

Regards, Dennis

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