proposal to make free the logo of Fedora

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:52, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:15 AM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Either way I'm not suggesting we shouldn't follow the advice of Red
>>> Hat legal on this matter. I'm just a bit unclear about the boundary.
>>> We seem to create under free licenses images that are intended to
>>> represent the Fedora Project in various ways currently without to my
>>> knowledge asking Red Hat legal to approve them. Is there something
>>> about a "logo" that makes that process different?
>>
>> Let's be explicit. Give me two examples of existing image creation
>> which you feel fall are meant to represent the Fedora Project that
>> fall outside the existing trademark usage license language that covers
>> the official wordmark and graphical logo?
>
> Why are you asking me to give you such examples? I certainly did not
> say there were any such images in violation of trademark guidelines.
> The images I had in mind don't contain any marks. While not containing
> any marks something like the four foundation cloverleaf still does get
> rightfully associated with the Fedora Project.
>
> Really, I just asked a simple question. Does the Fedora Board
> representing the Fedora Project have the wherewithal to declare a
> particular image (I assumed an image not containing any Red Hat owned
> marks) a freely licensed Fedora Project logo.

I do not know and we can ask.



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