Yes, that's correct, OLPC prefers we not use the XO logo in our marketing materials without a co-branding or licensing agreement, see:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2008-December/003059.html Robert Fadel should be able to answer our questions for OLPC. Trademarks are our friends for raising awareness of Sugar. Sean On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Cristian Paul PeƱaranda Rojas > <p...@kristianpaul.org> wrote: >>> You may want to ask on the olpc list. Also, what is relevance of the >>> Firefox reference? >> >> I understand that because firefox logo is trademark, so, and example of what >> have to be done if you uses software in wich that kind logos is embeded. > > Iceweasel was a rebranding of Firefox in response to a specific issue > Mozilla had with Debian regarding "unapproved" patches. By bringing it > up as the lead-in to his question, I can only assume that Sebastian is > suggesting that there is some looming issue regarding the use of an > OLPC trademark that would violate one or more of the OLPC guidelines. > I was perhaps not direct enough in asking what is that issue. > > When we have something concrete with which to work, the community can > take action. For example, when it was pointed out by Ruben that the > Scratch license was not a FOSS license, we removed it from ASLO. (Note > that the issue with Scratch was only tangentially related to the use > of their trademark artwork.) We also have been working with MIT to > address the issue so that hopefully we can some day have a FOSS > Scratch. > >> >> In the case of firefox branded web-browswer some gnu/linux distros ended >> both doing an >> agreement for the logo use with mozilla or rebrading the software name >> (including new logo >> design of course). >> >> In the case of the XO logo, is more interesting because it is used in Sugar >> and also in the XO-* laptop case. > > FYI, I last asked OLPC about the XO logo back in 2009. At the time, > they asked that the SFC provide some guidance on the topic. I asked > the SFC and have yet to hear back from their legal counsel. I believe > that the status quo is that we are not free to use the XO graphic in > our marketing materials without permission from OLPC. > >> >> So, sebastian keep us posted ! :) >> > > regards. > > -walter > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep