[Design-team] Fedora logo on the Details panel of the GNOME control center

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Apr 4 14:33:09 UTC 2013


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Máirín Duffy (duffy at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > On Thu 04 Apr 2013 09:41:14 AM EDT, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > It's a fair policy, although given that this is merely using the logos
> > > present in the fedora-logos package as-is (as I understand from Ryan's
> > > mail), I don't know that this counts as modification.
> > 
> > It does; the context in which the logo is displayed is dictated by the 
> > guidelines just as much as the actual logo graphics themselves. A 
> > specific example of this is the clearspace rule in the logo usage 
> > guidelines. For a specific example - the logo used here has no TM. 
> > There are (very few) contexts in which it's probably okay and we've 
> > gotten appropriate permission to display the logo without a TM, but 
> > it's pretty obvious no such permission was sought when using the 
> > TM-less logo in this instance.
> 
> What I'm trying to say is that if the logo requires a TM to be used, the
> logo in the fedora-logos package should have it - the expectation would
> be that the logos in that package are the proper ones to use without
> any modification.

... especially since packagers aren't allowed to ship their own versions
of any logos.

Bill


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