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Hi all |
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Over the last few years, we have noticed that the current name/logo usage |
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guidelines [1] are not always entirely clear or properly interpreted. The |
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Gentoo Foundation, Inc. has received quite a few requests to use the Gentoo |
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logo in services such as web based virtual machine management software, |
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software staging automation, etc. even though the applicant had read the |
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guidelines. |
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In our search to find a better license description for the name and logo, |
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we stumbled upon the Django Trademark License Agreement [2] which was |
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written with the same principles that we have in mind. |
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After consultation with the Django Software Foundation board we decided to |
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base our license on their text, of which the draft result is now available |
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for review at http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/tmp/gentoo-trademark.xml [3]. |
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We would appreciate that the new license is reviewed. We would really like |
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to know if the new license is more clear (or not) than the previous one. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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for the Gentoo Foundation, Inc. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/name-logo.xml |
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[2] https://www.djangoproject.com/trademarks/ |
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[3] http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/tmp/gentoo-trademark.xml |
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