Fedora logo license

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat May 27 09:36:11 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 11:35 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:33 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm currently in the progress of packaging tuxkart a racing game. One of
> >> the tracks on which you can race is an ordinary racing track with
> >> advertisement boards along the side.
> >>
> >> As shipped by upstream these advertisementboards contain advertisments
> >> for real product which clearly violates trademarks for those products.
> >>
> >> As such I'm in the progress of replacing these advertisement and some
> >> other troublish artwork. I've currently replace on the advertisement
> >> with the fedora logo, which seems appropriate for a Fedora package.
> >> However the license in fedora-logos is erm less then clearly worded and
> >> I wonder of my usage of the logo is ok. Notice that I've copy and pasted
> >> the logo, I cannot just use the image-file from Fedora-logo's because
> >> that is not in the .rgb format, which tuxkart needs.
> >>
> >> Thanks & Regards,
> >>
> >> Hans
> > 
> > 
> > The logo guidelines is available from
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo.  
> > 
> 
> That isn't really helpfull, all I can find there is a pdf which tells me
> not to change colors etc, iow to use the logo unmodified, which I'm
> doing. What I want to know if I may use to logo in and distribute it as
> a part of a Fedora Extras package.

Why isnt it helpful?  As long as you dont violate the guidelines you are
free to include it. 

Rahul




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