On Thursday 05 March 2009 13:36:32 Lars Vogdt wrote:

Dear openSUSE-Project, dear "Contact Information" (permission@novell.com)

Lars, you will not get a public answer directly to all these lists since not everybody in your To/CC line is subscribed to all the mailing lists you ask for. Also, since I'm not on the edu list, I remove it from the CC line.

With the release of the first openSUSE Trademark Guidelines [1], we see the big advantage to get the problem around the covered topics addressed. Thank you very much!

We, the openSUSE-Education project, are a small community driven project aiming to optimize openSUSE for use at universities and schools as well as for education usage by schoolers or students.

We've created "Add-on" Medias containing additional applications for already released openSUSE distributions. We've also created some manuals and HowTos (in the openSUSE-Wiki[2] and as PDF[3]) describing how to add the Add-on Media to an installed openSUSE distribution and use the additional software. Our repository is hosted by a server available under the URL www.opensuse-education.org.

Regarding to your Trademark Guidelines, we've the following (permission) questions:

Lars, I see a language problem, so let me ask explictely: do you ask whether you are allowed - or do you want to ask for permission to do these things?

1) Are we allowed to use the Name "openSUSE-Education" as Project name? Note: our Add-on Media is called "openSUSE-Education 1.0 for openSUSE $version"

2) Are we allowed to use the domain opensuse-education.org ? Note: the homepage already contains a pointer that we're a community driven project.

3) Are we allowed to use any openSUSE Logos|Mark on our project homepage and documentation/presentations?

5) Are we allowed to use a modified form of the openSUSE-Logo ? Currently, we've * a small Gecko with a doctoral cap on his head [4] * a full Gecko with this head and the "logotype" openSUSE-Education

6) Are we allowed to use our current CD-Cover for the Add-on Media as it contains some "openSUSE" words in it?

7) Is it this right: we can create an installable openSUSE Media containing our own addtiional applications - but we have to remove all openSUSE Marks from it. ?

For number 7: it'S the correct interpretation - unless you want to have an exception granted, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126