Comments on: Google Says: You can’t use Chrome Stuff!

By: you

you — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:03:37 +0000

You can use these HTML tags and attributes:
see you can use it

By: You can use these HTML tags and attributes:

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:02:59 +0000
You can use these HTML tags and attributes:

By: Adam M-W

Adam M-W — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:52:46 +0000

Although the Google Chrome icon is copyrighted, the Chromium icon is released under a BSD Licence to my knowledge. This means you could use this image and modify the colours to *look* like the Google Chrome logo, even though technically it’s the Chromium logo. The only catch is that under the BSD Licence you still need to include attribution to the Chromium Project. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chromium_Icon.png

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:15:50 +0000

In fact, this site should be called “www.chromiumplugins.org” Especially since Google came and told you to take all the chrome icons, and Google logos down…. With this site you are giving them some really good help launching it. I type ‘chrome plugins’ into the “google chrome” browser… and your site comes up… its very clean, and I found what I was looking for instantly…. which was “how can I get roboform to work with chrome?”

I mean, honestly, by doing that, they are just telling me to support their chromium open source project…. not Google Chrome.
Like, the RoboForm Chromium I’m using now!

or, how about ???

I mean, SRWare Iron took the open-source chromium, just stripped out the Google branding, stripped out the privacy violating issues, like Google usage tracking (the one you can’t opt out of – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Usage_tracking ) and started adding features, support for linux before google got to it, a built in ad-blocker, extensions….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php

Now… its kinda funny to me… maybe just me, but I still think it is funny.. Google creates an open source engine, chromium, and then changes the name to Chrome and brands it. The only problem… Chromium is what makes the browser sleek… not the Google colors. So, now they created competition against their own Chrome browser, from developers using the same Chromium engine.

I like this line from the wikipedia article on Google Chrome…
“Chromium implements the same feature set as Chrome, but has a slightly different logo.[8]”

That slightly different logo…. thats what makes it all trademarked, the logo you can’t display lol.

By: Cliff Wells

Cliff Wells — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:15:25 +0000

Google is legally compelled to protect trademarks, otherwise they risk losing them. There is a bit of fair use around this, but it’s much narrower than even the typical narrow fair use exceptions.

The comic is something different. If the license allowed your particular use at the time you published it, then I don’t think they can revoke it (and the CC license seems to support this in the license itself, provided you didn’t inadvertently violate the license in some way).

By: Irick

Irick — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:58:40 +0000

Chromium is the open source fork. Just use that logo.
Chrome is just freeware based strongly on Chromium.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:43:04 +0000

It’s not that far out for a company to use trademarks in an open source project. Ever heard of Iceweasel? It was Debian’s response to not being able to reuse the Firefox trademarks.”OpenOffice.org” is a trademark. “Red Hat” is a trademark, and so is their man-with-red-hat logo. And so on…

By: Dwight Stegall

Dwight Stegall — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:39:26 +0000

Absurd or not it’s their stuff and they can do whatever they want with it.

I don’t see why you are whining about this. Don’t you have better things to do?

By: Eddie Ringle

Eddie Ringle — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:56:04 +0000

As long as you are sure the comic was licensed under a license that allowed you to copy it when you did (and modify it), you are golden. As far as the logo goes, just use the Chromium logo. It’s not a big deal. I would pick Chromium over Chrome any day, I love bleeding edge stuff. (I wrote a Linux script that downloads and installs the latest linux build )

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:45:58 +0000

This just shows the TRUE face of Google. They are searching a GIGANT monopoly of the internet with the google brand. Now the letter tyou received just shows exacly that. Google takes his brand serious, the open source bullshit is just Marketing. Other wise they would not have send you that letter. Also. Why dont you just use the name Chromium and the Chromium logo? Its the same but blue. Now Google cannot trademark those, first chromium is a word of an element which cannot be branded and chromium is open source from webkit. It doesnt belong to them. Google Sucks really. They are millions of time more evil then Microsoft. They want to own the internet to the last bit of it. They want to take all services in the world out with google aps. Leaving almost all small business out.