On 2023-12-12 09:17, Lil Frogg wrote:
If the button logo already isn't trademarked and I'd say it by this point may have already widely superseded the original logo in terms of frequency of use and recognition, then I'm not sure I understand what all the fuss is about. What then would prevent the community from using the new voted on logo in the same way as the button is used now, even without a trademark change? What would the downsides of that be? Because from what I can tell they didn't really come up when the button was used.
If openSUSE was to practically abandon it's trademarked logo, then it could potentially be reused by others, claiming (understandably so) that it's been clearly abandoned by openSUSE. Given the very term "openSUSE" contains the term "SUSE", which is another trademark owned by SUSE, this gets very messy very quickly. Common sense dictates that SUSE need to make sure that their trademark(s) are always clearly maintained, legally defensible, and never at risk. So no, I think the main brand/logo of openSUSE will likely have to remain as registered trademarks as long as the project has the word "SUSE" in it's name. -- Richard Brown Distributions Architect SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, D-90461 Nuremberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Directors/Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich