Re: Dropping TM when using GNOME Brand?

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 16:26 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mercredi 02 mars 2011, à 09:09 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit :
> > 
> > Vincent:
> > 
> > >A few years ago, it was agreed that it's fine to use the GNOME logo with
> > >just GNOME instead of GNOME™: the trademark is still valid even if we
> > >don't explicitly put the ™. Is this still valid?
> > >
> > >Use cases:
> > >  - GNOME logo during boot of the GNOME 3 live image
> > >  - GNOME logo in the System Information panel of the control center
> > >  - etc.
> > 
> > I asked our legal folks this question, and they responded as follows:
> > 
> > > Yes, it is recommended that you generally use the Tm, but in isolated
> > > instances it's fine to go without.
> > 
> > I hope this is helpful.
> 
> I understand that as "it's okay to remove the TM in the two examples I
> gave". If someone disagrees, shout loud :-)

Thanks for the clarification. I'll add these notes to our brand
guidelines [1] if that's OK.

Allan

[1] http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines
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