[fab] More musings on the Fedora Logo
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Mon Jul 17 15:36:58 UTC 2006
I've been banging the drum for two logos, but let's face facts... it's not
gonna happen.
I spent some time thinking about logo usage questions this weekend.
Here's what I think we need:
1. THE SIMPLE CLICK-THRU AGREEMENT TO USE THE UNALTERED LOGO. For a
subset of usages, this agreement should be sufficient. I know that Max
has been working with folks on the legal team to build a simple web
frontend that will collect data from requestors, present them with the
terms of use, and provide them with a logo package. This will take a
person (currently me) out of the loop for logo approval in 75% of the
cases. We still need to figure out which subset of logo usages is ok for
this kind of rubber stamp, though. Probably:
+ Web sites that discuss Fedora topics
+ Servers that run Fedora (we really should make a "powered by" button)
2. LOGO ART COMMITTEE. Lots of people want to use the logo to make their
own derivative artwork. Given that we own the logo as a trademark, we can
*never* allow this to happen an uncontrolled manner. This means that we
need a body to review requests to distribute any logo modifications.
This could potentially be a committee with very broad powers. One could
imagine this committee approving, say, wallpapers and t-shirt designs and
all kinds of stuff. Will this work? Will the Fedora community bother
with this extra overhead? Honestly, I don't know. I don't think I would.
Anyway, more to get off my chest -- I'm done on this topic for a while, I
suspect. These issues are why Luis is considering letting the GNOME
trademark lapse, heh.
--g
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