Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (242 mails)

["Jan-Simon Möller" <dl9pf@xxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 12. Januar 2009 15:35:54 schrieb Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Satoru Matsumoto <helios_reds@xxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Comforming with the branding, some logos in that page are not allowed.
> > But I remember, red-capped Geeko was on the 'Main page' of the Wiki
> > during Christmas season a few years ago and I have not heard that Novell
> > lodged an objection about that.
>
> If it was a few years ago, we might not have had the guidelines we
> have now -- or it may have been missed. Or the creator might have
> asked / received permission. Just because something slips through, it
> may not indicate that the guidelines have changed. ;-)
>
> > So, I'd like to ask Novell, "Are we not allowed to modify logos you own
> > at all, even if we want to use it for our community activities ?"
>
> We're working on a trademark policy, and hope to have it done relatively
> soon.

Could you ping us again, when this is done ?  Proposal for the time until 
the policy is out ? 

> Tentatively, what we would like to have is a logo that's used for
> "official" communications, boxes, etc. and a logo that is available
> for "community" activities and can be modified.
>
> You can always ask permission to use the "official" logo as well --
> but what we'd like is a policy that allows as many things
> automatically as possible. Since we have limited manpower, especially
> on the legal side, we want to automate as much as possible and limit
> the "special cases."
>
> > If we are allowed to modify logos under certain conditions, I'd like to
> > know the criteria and restrictions.
>
> We're working on that and we'll publish it as soon as we can. Do you
> have any input on what kind of situations you need to modify the logo
> vs. using the stock logo? (Aside from this one, of course...)

I think most cases can be summarized like this:
* add Subproject name. E.g. "openSUSE Weekly News", "openSUSE Education"
* add Graphic to the icon. E.g. Santa's hat, Edu's "graduate hat"


Best regards,
Jan-Simon
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