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你好！

今早通过微博看到贵店的新商品：http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail.htm?item_num_id=8233108436

相信店主也是抱着一颗玩笑的心态对于眼下中国IT业界的风波，然后未经授权就修改（甚至可以说是丑化） Linux 的吉祥物 Tux
的行为对于国内众多 Linux 爱好者来讲是难以接受的。

按照 Tux 形象作者要求，任何对 Tux 形象的修改需要经过其本人电子邮件授权：http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/

在此请求店主在获得作者授权之前，立即停止该产品的销售。

黑日白月

Hello,

Tux the Penguin has been acknowledged as the general mascot for Linux.
However, today the lovely appearance of Tux is aggressively distorted
by an online shop selling personalized T-shirt in China.

Here is the link:
http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail.htm?item_num_id=8233108436
The item is believed to mock the on-going fiercely dispute between two
IT cooperationcorporations: Tencent  and
360.
Instead of using the penguin mascot of Tencent, the designer of this
T-shirt used Tux the Penguin for his mocking purpose.
According to the designer's twitter
timeline, he was 
prior aware of the his misusing action but still conducted this
distorted modification on Tux without any authorization.

A letter was sent to the designer personally. So far
no response was received. From his tweet  he seems to be
unwilling to terminate the violation of Tux.
By the time of written, 15 T-shirts with distorted Tux were
pre-ordered from the designer's online shop. The shipping date of
these goods is 12 Nov. As an individual member of Linux Foundation and
on behalf of rapidly growing Linux users and contributors, I urge
immediate intervention from Linux Foundation to help terminating this
heart-breaking activity. Thank you.

Kind regards,

Tommy He

Dear Madam,

The issue with distorted Tux T-shirts is getting worse. Assistance is
highly demanded before the public image of Tux is completely ruined in
China.

I would like to make the issue a bit clearer. What the T-shirt
represented is the largest dispute over user privacy in China. Tux was
distorted and used to symbolize Tencent corporation, the accused
privacy hijacker in the dispute. If the T-shirts with this distorted
Tux prevails (by now 31 were pre-ordered), the general public will
misunderstand Linux as the privacy hijacker because of "Tux"! I don't
think that's something Linux Foundation and the community members want
to see.

A public appeal letter was published on LinuxTOY:
http://linuxtoy.org/archives/protect-tux.html
This issue was fully exposed to the Linux community in China and many
of them stood up voluntarily with me to protect the Tux.
Several appeal letters were sent to the designer, the designing team
and all the online retailing stores. Unfortunately they chose to
ignore our justly request and continued to sell the T-shirt through
various distributed channels.

Of course this product was reported to the site administrator and
custom service center as a copyright violation case. However, the
staff there said that they can not enforce retiring the product unless
it was filed by the specific copyright owner or her/his authorized
personnel.

I am here to ask the assistance from Linux Foundation. If possible,
file the copyright violation report to the site administrator. Or
guide me to be the authorized personnel to do the same. One more
T-shirt was sold, one more spot for public image for Linux in China.

I am looking forward to your respond. Urge action is demanded to
protect the Linux future in China.

Kind regards,

Tommy He