Re: Business of branding [Re: Brading for GNOME games]

[Nicu Buculei <nicu_gnome nicubunu ro>]

Alan Horkan wrote:
> I would however keep in mind that the GPL fully allows some third party to
> repackage Gnome Games with entirely different artwork, if I recall
> correctly Nicu created a Fedora themed set of Artwork for Same Gnome which
> the distributor could add in later.  People have joked before about a

I had two set of themes: one with the Fedora bubble which I kept on my 
own site and another with the GNOME foot which I put on bugzilla.

> "Barbie Linux" distribution but there is a grain of truth in that joke.
> The idea could work for freedom software so long as it was carefully aimed
> at a paying audience, just as ringtones and artwork can be sold to phone
> users who are accustomed to paying for the service.  (There are other
> tactics of shareware developers I believe are not incompatible with the
> GPL but the profit margins are thin not usually worth the hassle. Tactics
> like a developer asking for "donations" to cover the extra hassle and
> expense of creating versions of their software for windows.)

Maybe if *all* games worked with graphics downloaded by the user in his 
home directory we could have a category on art.gnome.org with game 
"skins" for everyone to play with.

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