Hi Gents, Am Samstag, 12. Dezember 2020, 15:42:51 CET schrieb Richard Brown:

On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 15:16 +0100, Thorsten Bro wrote:

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Am 12. Dezember 2020 14:49:40 MEZ schrieb Axel Braun < axel.braun@gmx.de>:

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Hi,

does anyone know the license for the openSUSE logos in https://github.com/openSUSE/distribution-logos ?

Unfortunately, there is nothing mentioned, nor a license file

if I'm not wrong, openSUSE is a trademark of SUSE

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines

So this applies^^ and this I guess:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_brand

You're not wrong, most of openSUSE's logos are trademarks and the trademark guidelines apply governing their use.

However, AFAIK only the following trademarks are formally registered by SUSE and considered "openSUSE Marks" under that policy:

openSUSE (the text) openSUSE (the logo) Kubic (the text)

Axel's question was regarding the distribution logos, which include the logos for Leap, Tumbleweed, MicroOS and Kubic.

Therefore I think Axel's question intends to suggest that he feels the Board doesn't feel responsible for the Leap, Tumbleweed, Kubic and MicroOS terms in the same way they clearly are for the openSUSE & Kubic text and the openSUSE logo.

Not at all, Richard. My question has nothing to do with 'The Board', but simply under which terms and conditions the logos can be uploaded and shown in wikipedia, e.g. to vizualise https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#Aktuelle_Distributionen

Which is a little weird for me. I think our trademark policy makes sense, and I'd suggest we treat all openSUSE distributions under that policy. Even if the marks haven't been registered by SUSE (yet?), proactively working as if they are registered trademarks should keep that door open if the Project decides to go down that road in teh future.

According to german law - Urheberrecht - the Urheberrecht is tied to the creator (as he is the 'Urheber') of the logo. Different to other jurisdictions this is non-transferrable, but he can grant usage rights to whomever under defined conditions. One condition could be the creative commons license, e.g. CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License) as used here: https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork So, once we find the creator, we can clarify the license Best, Axel

Hi Gents, Am Samstag, 12. Dezember 2020, 15:42:51 CET schrieb Richard Brown:

On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 15:16 +0100, Thorsten Bro wrote:

...

Am 12. Dezember 2020 14:49:40 MEZ schrieb Axel Braun < axel.braun@gmx.de>:

...

Hi,

does anyone know the license for the openSUSE logos in https://github.com/openSUSE/distribution-logos ?

Unfortunately, there is nothing mentioned, nor a license file

if I'm not wrong, openSUSE is a trademark of SUSE

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines

So this applies^^ and this I guess:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_brand

You're not wrong, most of openSUSE's logos are trademarks and the trademark guidelines apply governing their use.

However, AFAIK only the following trademarks are formally registered by SUSE and considered "openSUSE Marks" under that policy:

openSUSE (the text) openSUSE (the logo) Kubic (the text)

Axel's question was regarding the distribution logos, which include the logos for Leap, Tumbleweed, MicroOS and Kubic.

Therefore I think Axel's question intends to suggest that he feels the Board doesn't feel responsible for the Leap, Tumbleweed, Kubic and MicroOS terms in the same way they clearly are for the openSUSE & Kubic text and the openSUSE logo.

Not at all, Richard. My question has nothing to do with 'The Board', but simply under which terms and conditions the logos can be uploaded and shown in wikipedia, e.g. to vizualise https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#Aktuelle_Distributionen

Which is a little weird for me. I think our trademark policy makes sense, and I'd suggest we treat all openSUSE distributions under that policy. Even if the marks haven't been registered by SUSE (yet?), proactively working as if they are registered trademarks should keep that door open if the Project decides to go down that road in teh future.

According to german law - Urheberrecht - the Urheberrecht is tied to the creator (as he is the 'Urheber') of the logo. Different to other jurisdictions this is non-transferrable, but he can grant usage rights to whomever under defined conditions. One condition could be the creative commons license, e.g. CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License) as used here: https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork So, once we find the creator, we can clarify the license Best, Axel