On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:02:28AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> > > This obsoletes the previous "Provide logo URLs for Fedora and Ubuntu" > patch from me. If for some reason you are not convinced with the > important of these patches, see this Boxes screenshot :) > > http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/boxes+win-fedora-ubuntu-iso-logos.png While the motivation to display logos is fine, after reviewing the Fedora legal guidance on use of logos I think I'll have to NACK this patch for now. This mail contains the details: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-April/001615.html > 1. Distribution of the icons containing the logo files is not connected > to whether the use is infringement or not (which makes sense, we don't > get a free pass on using a trademarked logo improperly just because we > didn't distribute it). This doesn't mean that we can distribute icons > containing trademarks either, just that the two items aren't connected. Based on this point, the trademark issue is not focused around whether we have distributed the logo, but rather whether/how we have *used* it. So even if we download the logo, rather than bundle it, we still have to abide by the same trademark usage rules > 2. With that said, the fact that the icon is _always_ coming from the > VM, thus minimizing the chance of a VM being labeled with the wrong > trademarked logo, is a good thing, and in fact, necessary. Since we are proposing to download logos from a 3rd party site, there would be a non-negigable chance of us mis-labelling a VM with the wrong trademarked logo. So we would fall foul of this point. > 3. Red Hat Legal explains that the rule of thumb is this: > - If the wordmark (e.g. "Fedora") is sufficient to describe the item, > then the logo use is not necessary, and thus, not permitted. Since your screenshot shows that the 'wordmark' is indeed present & sufficient, we would fall foul of this point too. So reluctantly, NACK to this use of logos :-( Regads, Daniel. -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
