proposal to make free the logo of Fedora

Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 02:49:04 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Christofer C. Bell
<christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This very problem is facing the Debian Project (the requestor of this
> change) more and more often as their "100% free logo" (the Debian
> swirl without the Debian word attached) is now used to sell pretty
> much anything you can think of from social networking to microwave
> ovens (search for "debian logo" in the debian-legal archives to find
> examples).  I am frankly surprised that there would be a request made
> to the Fedora Project to enter into the same hopeless misadventure.

Actually, I think there's an even better way to put this that I feel
gets the point across.  If your logo is 100% free to use, it's no
longer a logo for your product.  It's clip art.

-- 
Chris


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