Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

So, what would Ubuntu GNOME need to do to differentiate their logo
from the 'normal' GNOME logo? Can they not use the GNOME foot at all?
Could they simply add a line 'not sanctioned by the GNOME Foundation'
to the website? What needs to be done?

Emily

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > On 18 Nov 2013, at 01:15, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > > * Ubuntu GNOME trademark usage
> > >  * The team is using the GNOME logo for their Ubuntu spin
> > >  * We recommended they should not use the GNOME logo in the current form
> > >  * '''ACTION''': Karen to contact the Ubuntu GNOME spin team for
> > > their use of the GNOME trademark
> >
> > Can we get more details on this? I'm obviously lacking context, but it
> > sounds disappointing that downstreams cannot use the GNOME logo to
> > promote GNOME spins/flavors they're doing. (Saying that as an openSUSE
> > guy, who's not involved in Ubuntu GNOME in any way :-))
>
> The problem, I guess from discussions when I was still on the board, is that the "Ubuntu GNOME" is just the 
> GNOME logo in a circle. That's hardly enough differentiation. Using the GNOME logo on the cover art to show 
> that it's built with GNOME would probably alright too.
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