Use of Fedora logo in Boxes project

David Nalley david at gnsa.us
Wed Feb 22 20:48:19 UTC 2012


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Zeeshan Ali <zeenix at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  As you may or may not know, we have been working on a new GNOME
> application, Boxes[1] that (among other things) enables users to easily
> manage virtual-machines. This also includes ability to detect
> operating-systems given an installation media and presenting an
> intuitive and *impressive* UI to user to easily install different
> operating systems with minimum or no interaction. Boxes makes use of a
> new library, libosinfo[2] that provides information about operating
> systems (which it internally keeps in an XML database).
>
> We really want (more like need) to show logos of different operating
> systems to the user[3]. I sent a mail[4] to Fedora legal regarding this
> and turns out that we can not use the logos like this unless we get
> explicit permission from each trademark holder. Which is why I'm writing
> to you folks now. Can we please get the permission to use Fedora logo in
> this manner and distribute it along with Boxes or libosinfo?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3.4
> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/libosinfo/
> [3] http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/boxes-small-iso-icons+logos.png
> [4]
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2012-February/001828.htm
>
>
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Just to follow up on list:
Permission to use the Fedora logo within Boxes has been granted by the
Fedora Board. This was approved by the board in todays meeting[0]

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-02-22/fedora_board.2012-02-22-18.29.log.html

Thanks
--David


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