[fab] Fedora wallpapers and legal reuse of mark

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 7/10/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Alex Maier wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 08:27 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> >> That was what I was referring to earlier as brand dilution.
> >
> > Allow me to respectfully disagree. Brand dilution will not happen from
> > giving the community a logo they can legally play and get creative with.
> > It will rather happen if we do not, and the community has either one of
> > two choices:
> >
> >         1. Use our one and only logo illegally, i.e. without our
> >         permission, and in contexts where we would rather not have it
> >         used;
> >
> >         2. Come up with their own version, which we all know can involve
> >         puppies wearing blue hats.
> >
> > If we provide a sane framework for Fedora logo use, we will only
> > strengthen our brand.
>
> Except that noone would bother applying for permission to use the
> official logo and would just use the "open" logo for all purposes. What
>   is the use of having a official logo nobody is going to associate with
> Fedora easily?
>

So the question is: How does one apply for permission to use the
official logo and how do they use it without diluting the trademark?

> >
> > Or have you had any difficulty recognizing the Debian logo and what it
> > stands for?
> >
>
> The official Debian logo would be totally unrecognizable without the
> tagging in the open use logo as part of it. Seriously, how many people
> have ever seen it being used with Debian?
>

I had NEVER seen the lamp until it was pointed out in this list. I
thought the Swirl was Debian..


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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator