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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 19:25 Mon 07 Nov , Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> Well, that at least is enforceable. Once PR figures out which one is the |
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>> real one the trustees can probably send a polite note to the rest |
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>> explaining the situation and asking for the logo to be removed. Use of the |
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>> logo as an identifying mark should be limited to official use. |
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>> (Not speaking officially for anybody but myself.) |
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> Meh. See trademark guidelines regarding community projects and sites. |
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That page actually needs a bit of an overhaul - this has been |
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discussed in the Trustee meetings for a few months now. The current |
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policy works but isn't very flexible for things like community sites |
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and such and addressed trademark law but not copyright law (which |
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applies to the logo). |
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That guideline you pointed to does not give community sites any rights |
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to use the logo - only the name "Gentoo." Read it carefully. |
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The non-commercial use guidelines of the logo would apply (assuming |
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the use is indeed non-commercial). So, a clear statement that the |
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site is NOT part of the Gentoo project or under the control of the |
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Gentoo Foundation would be required. |
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Anybody with thoughts around the Gentoo logo is welcome to |
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comment/participate in the discussion. One policy that has been |
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contrasted with Gentoo's is Debian's - which has separate logos for |
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community vs official use, and also which has clear guidelines on when |
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you can put it on stuff like servers/media/etc. |
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The reality has been that we really haven't had many problems with |
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trademarks over the years and we're not exactly a litigious |
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organization. If a website were causing confusion and they really |
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were Gentoo supporters I imagine that they'd be cooperative. |
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In any case, the intent of my email wasn't really to suggest that we |
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go running around sending out complaints, but more the opposite - to |
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indicate that we shouldn't panic over the site-creation stampede since |
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we do have the ability to sort it all out. |
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Rich |
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