Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: foundation update...
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:24:02
Message-Id: 20050914182418.GK6179@nightcrawler
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: foundation update... by Sven Vermeulen
1 On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:08:06PM +0200, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
2 > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:27:00AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
3 > > I think that's about it for the moment. We have 13 trustees, so it's
4 > > entirely possible that people are working on things that I don't know
5 > > about. We should really fix that.
6 >
7 > I've been trying to contact a few (dozen) sites that are violating the
8 > guidelines set forth on the Gentoo g logo usage; not much reply on it
9 > though. Luckily some of them do reply positively.
10 >
11 > Many sites consider the g-logo a community logo and feel that they are free
12 > to use it any way they like, including offering t-shirts and such that
13 > "look" official but have no link whatsoever with the Gentoo Foundation.
14 Potentially a dumb question, but any reason we don't have offenders
15 listed on the website?
16
17 Shame them, essentially. This is assuming they care, and people see
18 the pigs list, but it at least makes people aware that people are
19 dinking us over.
20
21 Aware this is also affected by any legal wrangling involved, just an
22 idle suggestion.
23 ~harring