Hi René, On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 01:06 +0200, René Mérou wrote: > So, please undestandme, im not looking for "the answer" (that i thank you of > course). I try to make you to start one open debate in the proyect not just > one part of it. This is something that has already been discussed and debated quite a lot. Just as recently as less than 2 months ago we approached the legal team to see if changing the font of Fedora's logotype from proprietary Bryant2 to OFL Comfortaa would be accepted. But it wasn't, not just because of trademark protection issues but because of branding consistency, etc. I trust Red Hat as an organization to do the right thing - and the trademark belongs to them. If Red Hat legal feels there's sufficient risk in opening up the licensing of the logo, I believe that and support that decision. I completely understand and respect the point you are trying to bring up, and I have fought that battle before. In the end, however, we are bound by the trademark rules and I honestly would rather spend my time designing awesome stuff for Fedora than fighting trademark defense battles. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. We have a very open & easy process for folks using our logo in a valid manner to obtain the source files for it, and we use openly-licensed fonts in all of our design, we openly license all of the designs we produce, and work to promote the openly-licensed works of other artists (check out our supplemental wallpapers project [1] highlighting talented creative commons artists). We also only use free & open source tools to produce and work with our assets, and many of us promote the free & open source creative tools by teaching classes and by providing the Design Suite spin. I do think that's good enough. ~m [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Winners _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
