On Monday 07 June 2010 23:11:45 Klaas Freitag wrote:
Am Montag 07 Juni 2010 16:30:06 schrieb Alberto Passalacqua:
even if I find the "de-branding" quite annoying, and I don't understand how it can help us to market openSUSE, when the resulting distro looks like a "hand-made" distribution with default upstream logos. :-(
Yes, thats the point. Your idea is great and promotes openSUSE in a very interesting area, as other projects do. I really hope that this (your ;-) case pushes the board to work on a more general solution which is not debranding. It should be possible - let's cross fingers :)
It would be great, if we could make the trademark guidelines more suitable for
openSUSE based systems. I think, if a project doesn't work against the goals
of openSUSE or misrepresents as the official distribution, there is no real
reason to not call it openSUSE based and have some openSUSE branding just
because you add a package.
So if we could make the guidelines more liberal in that it also allows systems
making use of openSUSE as a base being called powered by openSUSE or something
like that and have openSUSE branding like the gecko menu button still in
place, it would be much more helpful for spreading the word about openSUSE.
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Cornelius Schumacher