On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > The compliance program is driven by setting the compliance specs (discussed
> > on meego-dev):,*http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Compliance
> 
> But that referrs to MeeGo 1.1, what about shipping something that
> matches 1.0?  Like what Andrew has up and running?
> 
> And even then, that's just a "draft" proposal, right?  How can you
> "certify" to a draft at this point in time?
> 
> > So basically, if someone/company wants to use the name MeeGo as part of
> > their product name, they need to respect:
> > 1- trademark guidelines - published at
> > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/linux-foundation-trademark-usage-guidelines
> 
> That's fine, trademark law is great, and my original proposal meets
> those rules, right?
> 
> > 2- MeeGo compliance guidelines or specs  (ongoing project - status can be
> > tracked at: http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Compliance)
> 
> As nothing is final, this can not be required at this point in time.  So
> my original wording should still be fine, especially as the project is
> "based on" and not stating that it is compliant in any way, nor using
> any trademarked artwork or branding that you are trying to hold out for
> only "compliant" releases.
> 
> Of course, the big joke is that there is no "compliant" releases yet as
> there is no spec, so we'll just ignore the shipping MeeGo distros from
> different companies at the moment :)
> 
> So finally, does the Linux Foundation have any objection to the use of
> the following terminology:
> 
>       Smeegol, an openSUSE release based on the netbook user interface
>       that came from the Meego(TM)* project.
> 
>       * Meego is a trademark of the Linux Foundation.
> 
> And if there are objections, how should it be rephrased?
> 
> Remember, you want "respins" like this, don't start squashing them...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Many thanks Greg for the legalise.  Providing the Linux Foundation has
no objections, I would like to use that.

My next question is that of artwork.  Looking at the link provided I
don't see anything about artwork usage.  From what I can tell, there is
the icon-theme package which refers to the Compliance section for usage,
is it the only package containing restricted artwork?  So does that mean
I can't use icon-theme, and have to use one of the other themes provided
by openSUSE (Tango for instance)? 

What can I use, and what can I explicitly not use?  If it helps anyone
wishing to answer these questions I am more than happy for you to see
for yourselves by trying out the Alpha of Smeegol ;-)

Regards,

Andy
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