[Fedora-spins] remix-logos

Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 20:36:37 UTC 2009


2009/3/8 Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com>:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Now that the new trademark guidelines have been published at
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines
>>
>> I would like to see the ability for remixes to use the secondary brand
>> easily. One way to do this is to have a remix-logos package in the
>> Fedora repository that contains secondary brand images which can be used
>> as a replacement for fedora-logos and instead of generic-logos. Anyone
>> willing to look at this?
>>
>
> The -logos package in the creation of installation media gets chosen by
> product name, nowadays. You cannot pick a specific -logos package for
> the installer images build process to use although that was the first
> patch I attempted to get into anaconda.
>
> I can see the added value of having a remix-logos, but it's name is
> shorter then "fedora-logos" so I'm afraid it might start winning some
> yum-best-package selections.

This business with the way logo packages are selected really has to change. If i create a derivative of Fedora called Fap Linux, then fap-logos would beat out fedora-logos both alphabetically and by length. This could create some embarrassing situations.

-Yaakov
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