Hi Karen, Le mardi 26 novembre 2013, à 00:47 -0500, Karen Sandler a écrit : > As a lawyer I want to point out that the main thing about our trademark is > to make sure that users (under the law: consumers) aren't confused about > what comes from GNOME and what doesn't. This is extremely helpful when you > have real jerks who try to distribute software that isn't GNOME or free > software but use our name and logo to fool people into downloading it.I > have seen some really bizarre uses of our logo and to my knowledge we have > only enforced when we think the use is confusing. As was also pointed out > by someone else, we've had many friendly discussions that have resulted in > better uses of the marks for all.
Do you have some concrete examples of confusing/misleading uses of our logo where we had to enforce our trademark? It's been obviously quite some time, but from my years in the board, I only remember misuses that were actually not in the software field, and I wonder if things are the same or if it got worse. Also, how do we define the right balance? In the Ubuntu GNOME example, I would consider the project to be both part of the Ubuntu and GNOME communities, so imho, it should be entitled to use our trademark. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
