Re: GNOME Logo Branding Guidelines Concerns

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So for a while now I've been working at establishing a set of guidelines 
> for the GNOME brand, including the GNOME logo. An issue has come up and 
> I wanted to ask you all for your thoughts on it: The GNOME 'sublogo' 
> guidelines [1] may be of concern with respect to the defensibility of 
> the GNOME foot's trademark. (See discussion at [2]).
>
> So my questions for you folks are:
>
> (1) Are there any objections to the proposed sublogo guidelines? Do you 
> think they are too restrictive or too permissive?
>
> (2) Do you think the 'creative' sublogos approach is entirely more risk 
> than it is worth? Should we just not allow for sublogos, or only allow 
> for sublogos that use the 'stock' GNOME foot logomark?
>
> (3) Do you think having an approval system for sublogos would be an 
> acceptable requirement? Should we contact a lawyer to get some advice?
>
> Discuss! :)
>
> Thanks,
> ~m
>
>
> [1] 
> http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines?action=show#head-fd7481407393ff9e54fae8ed1d9f8323547ea88b
>
> [2] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/31832.html
>
> [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines
>   
Hi Máirín
Thanks for working on this, it totally rocks to have something like this!
Approving sublogos sounds like a great idea, the Java GNOME logo for 
example hurts my eyes a bit, but the other examples works quite well.
- Andreas