Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (197 mails)

[Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 18:39 -0500, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of the openSUSE
> Trademark Guidelines[1] (PDF). With the guidelines, the openSUSE Project is
> looking to clarify the use of the openSUSE marks and make it easier to
> redistribute openSUSE-based projects.

Overall, I liked the guidelines. Easy to read, understand, and it's a
legal document with the adjective "cool" in it - how often do you see
that?

The one line I have some qualms about (mainly that I think it is too
broad) is this one:

"We are pleased to permit you to link to opensuse.org from your web
site. We have provided several logo graphics for you to choose from. To
use these logos you must agree that:
        ...your web site will not contain content that could be construed as
distasteful,            offensive, or controversial, and will contain only
content that is appropriate for all age groups"

I absolutely understand why this is necessary - and I agree with it. But
many members of the openSUSE community or just normal fans have blogs
that have political opinions on them - and those opinions could be
considered controversial to some people. Perhaps there should be some
sort of added language that either defines 'controversial' or add
language stating that political opinions shouldn't classify as
'offensive' or 'controversial' unless we're talking some seriously
un-cool stuff on the website.

Just my thoughts. Have fun!
-- 
Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy - now with a shorter signature!
openSUSE Member
http://www.twitter.com/KevinDupuy

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