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

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
> Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> > > My stance is that I am happy for them (or anyone) to include GNOME in their
> > > product. They have permission (IIRC) to name it "something GNOME". So it's a
> > > different product, i.e. not "GNOME". I am happy if they use our logo. I'd be
> > > more happy if they also silghtly modify the logo as they slightly modified the
> > > name. I assume it's relatively low effort and helps us to defend improper usage
> > > in the future and them to differentiate their product. If it's not low effor to
> > > slightly modify the logo, then I might come to a different conclusion.
> >
> > I totally agree Toby.
>
> This is pretty much my position, although I'd probably weight my
> preference for modifying the logo a bit more strongly. (There's
> clearly been some miscommunication here.) Of course Ubuntu GNOME
> should be able to use the logo - I was just arguing that they
> shouldn't *just* use the GNOME logo [1].

And, once again, I have to ask, how much different does it have/need
to be? It is slightly different already, in Ubuntu's normal scheme for
spinoffs - if you look at Xubuntu's logo its a solid circle with the
XFCE mouse inside in relief, Kubuntu's is a solid circle with KDE's
logo inside. This is the standard Ubuntu flavor logo. Why does Ubuntu
GNOME's need to be different?

> Allan
>
> [1] It's a useful thought exercise to think about what would happen if
> openSUSE (to pick an example) wanted to launch "openSUSE GNOME", btw.
> In this case they'd differentiate themselves from "Ubuntu GNOME",
> etc...
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