Re: Ubuntu GNOME Flavor naming

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 00:36 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 13 August 2012 11:56, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
> > At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May, several of us that work with
> > GNOME in Ubuntu discussed the need for a Ubuntu community derivative
> > similar to Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others but which will try to ship a
> > relatively pure GNOME experience.
> >
> > The traditional Ubuntu naming convention for these alternate flavors
> > is "Gubuntu" but it seems that could cause confusion with the
> > pronunciation of Google's internal distribution Goobuntu. We'd like to
> > instead use GNObuntu.
> >
> > We want to run our proposed name past GNOME first to avoid the hassle
> > and conflicts of being forced to later rename the project.
> 
> I think I need to clarify what I am asking for. I want to know if any
> of these names for a proposed GNOME spin of Ubuntu are acceptable uses
> of the GNOME trademark:
> 
> 1. GNOMEbuntu
> 2. Ubuntu GNOME Edition
> 3. GNObuntu
> 
> Ryan has already registered http://gnomebuntu.org/ so I'm leaning
> towards the first name if that's acceptable.

>From how I understand our trademark guidelines, you can't use them to
make compounds names or logos. So 1. and 3. would be out.

https://live.gnome.org/Foundation/LicensingGuidelines

If you were to specifically request for one of 1. or 3. to be approved
as an authorised use, we would probably want to see explanations as to
why other names could not be used.

Note that this isn't legal advice of any kind, or even approval from the
Board, only my personal opinion.

Cheers