Worrying attitudes to the branding of the D language

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On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 17:53:28 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> Walter does not own the copyright to the current logo. It 
> probably won't but that could bite us in the ass in the future. 
> Better to switch to a new but familiar one now with copyright 
> assignment to Walter.

This is not how copyright works. If you base a new logo on the 
old one it is a derived work and the old author will have partial 
ownership in the new logo, so you cannot publish it without 
consent.

If there is a copyright or trademark issue you need a clean break 
(a completely unrelated logo).

Other than that, I agree with Gary.

(And I still think that the "new" design looks like an adobe.com 
rip-off…)