Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

> On 18 Nov 2013, at 01:15, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> > * Ubuntu GNOME trademark usage
> >  * The team is using the GNOME logo for their Ubuntu spin
> >  * We recommended they should not use the GNOME logo in the current form
> >  * '''ACTION''': Karen to contact the Ubuntu GNOME spin team for
> > their use of the GNOME trademark
>
> Can we get more details on this? I'm obviously lacking context, but it
> sounds disappointing that downstreams cannot use the GNOME logo to
> promote GNOME spins/flavors they're doing. (Saying that as an openSUSE
> guy, who's not involved in Ubuntu GNOME in any way :-))

The problem, I guess from discussions when I was still on the board, is that the "Ubuntu GNOME" is just the 
GNOME logo in a circle. That's hardly enough differentiation. Using the GNOME logo on the cover art to show 
that it's built with GNOME would probably alright too.