Jon Stanley wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Duvelle Jones <duvelle jones gmail com> wrote:You know, I am not too sure about the reasoning to that decision. But that is something that should be up for discussion, there may or may not be legal repercussion for the use of a non-open typeface. (and I am no legal expert, so I am not sure to what those repercussion might be.)Red Hat has paid for the use of the font in the logo, and can distribute copies of the logo royalty-free. The only reason that someone might need a copy of the font is to modify the logo, and per the trademark guidelines, that should never occur, therefore there is no legal ramification to distributing the logo as is.
And for various titles and additional graphics, we selected a free font, MgOpen Modata, which is "officially", _the_ complementary font:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Complementary_FontAs for logo modification, the initial proposal provided this as a possibility, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Logo-history-variations.jpg but that was scraped.
Here is what we got from mixing the wordmark (in Bryant 2 font) and additional MgOpen Modata glyphs (it is a recent development):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Fedora_secondary_logo_draft_guidelines.png -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro