Moin, On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Since it's easier than ever to create customized versions of openSUSE, we've seen a lot of interest in the branding of derivative distros. When is it OK to call a distro "openSUSE," or "powered by openSUSE," and when does the branding need to be removed entirely? The guidelines are an attempt to answer as many of those questions as possible in one concise document.
The guidelines are currently relatively strict about modified openSUSE versions. Wouldn't it be good to have something like a "weak" trademark which can be used more freely. So that I could for example call my openSUSE version where I updated KDE to the latest version something like "openSUSE powered" or "smells like openSUSE" or "once was openSUSE" or whatever? This would give openSUSE more visibility.
I'm fully in agreement with that and like to add a few comments to the discussion in general: - a company needs to shield its trademark to maintain ownership of it - we shouldn't be more holy than the pope (german saying - don't know it this translates good into english), eg. Martin's example of the danish openSUSE documentation. Why should Novell have something against this? At least I can't find a reasonable answer - with permission@novell.com we do have now an official way to ask for permission, and yes, we (Novell) needs to show quick turn around times here and need to adjust the guidelines if reality requests that Best M
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