No, it’s what they told me after seeing the symbols and routes on a map.
The routes: after we explained that the routes were hand-recorde in the field (even if they did not allow us to use the digital info), which -under our law- does not break copyright, they gave permission to use their info, but they asked us to make sure that our OSM-route lines were not more up-to-date than theirs… we don’t control their updates, so that’s a mute request. I did set up a process to compare their route lines with OSM routes, resulting in hundreds of differences, mostly at their side, and they used it to fix their digital routes. Sadly, they didn’t pick this up as a regular QA process.
The symbols: I explained that we mappers just give a text description of the symbol, and that renderers decide what to make of that. And that I would support a legal check to see if that violates copyrights or licenses, because I would really like to see if we are not allowed to describe a symbol, or if renderers are not allowed to use the description like that.
And it is a fact that this particular logo is not that complicated, and if a renderer uses the text description to depict something like it, it is bound to look reasonably like the licensed picture.
I haven’t heard any objections since, and I am sure they know how to find me!
It has to be said: their digital info of all routes has improved substantially. They used to keep the digital route lines equal to the printed versions, but their has been a paradigma shift: they now see and publicise (as “interactive maps”) the current route including all the modifications as The Route.