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Betreff: [council-agenda] CC proposal for agenda: rewriting our logo
license to make life easier
Datum: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:50:22 +0200
Von: Florian Effenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Antwort an: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organisation: OpenOffice.org
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Louis Suárez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John McCreesh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cristian Driga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I want to start a discussion about our current logo license [1], and
after a debate on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list [2], I'd like to bring this
proposal to the CC as Charles suggested. [3]
A a MarCon, I have to deal with the permission to use our logo on a
nearly daily basis. Mostly for publishers who want to use it on the
cover of their books and CDs, and from journalists who write an article
about OpenOffice.org and want to use our logo in their magazine.
If I got it right, the main point that our logo is not free is to
prevent abuse of it, which is a good point. However, the current process
of getting permission to use the logo is just too complicated. People
contacting me often need the permission very fast, and they write to me
in their native (i.e. German) language. They often are not aware how
mailing lists work and they want a single contact person to talk to, so
telling them to write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in English often is not an option.
The reality is, that I translate and forward their requests, wait for a
reply (due to the spam volume on [EMAIL PROTECTED], it often takes two or
three mails for anyone to read it) and forward that reply to them. That
causes much workload and pain that surely can be avoided. I think, usage
in a predefined set of cases can generally be granted. (It actually is
being generally granted, but we have to ask case by case to get our
permission.)
So, I see two proposals on how to avoid that in the future:
- Either we modify the license so that the logo can be used for a
certain predefined set of purposes, like the ones mentioned above, under
some rules, like not modifying it or abusing it. Georg Link mentioned
the PHP logo license that works that way. [4]
- Or allow the local MarCons to decide these cases by themselves,
whereas they have to obey some rules.
Each of these would make the current process much easier. I think option
#1 is best.
So, CC, if you can put that on your agenda and discuss and decide, that
would make a MarCon's life much easier. :-)
Thanks for taking the time,
Florian
[1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoArt--OOo_logo_license
[2] http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=25073
[3] http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=25090
[4] http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=25086
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