I vote +1 to this use of the TM... but in the spirit of bike-shedding, I agree with with Bernie that the color-on-white schemes would be better on this page :)
-walter On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > El Fri, 25-06-2010 a las 12:21 -0400, Mel Chua escribió: >> Continuing our "move discussion to list" adventures... >> >> Bernie brought up an OOo4Kids request to display our logo. Tomeu and I >> were unable to find the original text of the request - what is the >> project asking for? We're blocking until we get that text - does anyone >> know where to find it? >> >> A related motion, from Bernie: >> >> MOTION: To pre-approve the entire class of requests such as "can I put >> Sugar Labs logo in my partners/acknowledgments page?", as they are very >> frequent and hard to abuse for bad purposes. >> >> For the record: if we passed this, we'd need to agree on a specific >> change to our TM policy (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trademark). >> >> Discussion with Tomeu in #sugar-meeting just now led to the following >> conclusions (I'll speak for myself here, but I think Tomeu agrees): >> >> 1. We should automatically let other parties display *their* endorsement >> of Sugar - for instance, "I <3 and support Sugar Labs" >> banners/buttons/badges, because that is about the other party saying >> something about SL. >> >> 2. The other way around - something that implies that SL endorses >> something else, is exactly why we have the TM usage guidelines and >> request procedure, and Ooo4Kids should follow it - if their request >> falls in one of the already-automated categories, then sure, it's >> automated... if it isn't, then it will need to be voted on. >> >> It's not clear whether Ooo4Kids is asking for #1 or #2, so we're >> ultimately still blocking on finding the text of that request. Please >> help! (If you know who the original requestor of this motion is, please >> let them know to get in touch with us.) > > This is the original "request": > > <ericb2> hello > <ericb2> just FYI > <ericb2> http://www.educoo.org/pages/partenaires/ > <ericb2> Adam sent me some machines, and you are counted as partner > <ericb2> you means "Sugar Labs" > <ericb2> if ever you disagree, just tell us, and we'll remove the logo, > and everything you'll ask to > <ericb2> thanks for forwarding the info to Adam and other > <bernie> I do agree > <bernie> except our logo with a black bg looks horrible :-) > <bernie> I'll ask the board to confirm they agree with this partnership, > but I'm sure they will say ok > <ericb2> ah, sorry. In fact, this is the first try, and we'll probably > improve. e.g. the UTBM logo is a fake, and I sent one correct to Fred > (ht eguy who will maintain the page) > <ericb2> ok, thanks a lot > <bernie> I sent an email asking if this usage of our logo is ok without > requesting a TM license > > For the small things like this, I think anything much more sophisticated > than "can I put the SL logo in our partners page?" + "sure, go ahead!" > seems overkill to me. > > Besides the waste of time, I'm afraid that acting like a bunch of > paranoid attorneys when interacting with our partners and contributors > would hurt Sugar Labs' public image way more than the tiny chance of our > logo receiving an undeserved acknowledgment somewhere. > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
