Interesting perspective - thanks for asking and getting the feelers out there. This just sounds like the person misunderstands what has happened.

Anyway, the guy said that he didn't like that it was essentially giving the marketers a path towards being reimbursed for the work that's been done.

While I can see that as a valid concern, it is baseless. There is no official reimbursement for marketing at all, and the only funds received by anyone as a result of this work was donations.

As a matter of fact, when the topic was last raised Joshoeah explicitly did not want to raise a Foundation expense poll.

That being said, on a personal note I think work like this should be reimbursed to some extent. That is a whole separate topic to this logo though.