Fedora logo license

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:06:11PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 11:35 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:33 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I'm currently in the progress of packaging tuxkart a racing game. One of
> > >> the tracks on which you can race is an ordinary racing track with
> > >> advertisement boards along the side.
> > >>
> > >> As shipped by upstream these advertisementboards contain advertisments
> > >> for real product which clearly violates trademarks for those products.
> > >>
> > >> As such I'm in the progress of replacing these advertisement and some
> > >> other troublish artwork. I've currently replace on the advertisement
> > >> with the fedora logo, which seems appropriate for a Fedora package.
> > >> However the license in fedora-logos is erm less then clearly worded and
> > >> I wonder of my usage of the logo is ok. Notice that I've copy and pasted
> > >> the logo, I cannot just use the image-file from Fedora-logo's because
> > >> that is not in the .rgb format, which tuxkart needs.
> > > 
> > > The logo guidelines is available from
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo.  
> > 
> > That isn't really helpfull, all I can find there is a pdf which
> > tells me not to change colors etc, iow to use the logo unmodified,
> > which I'm doing. What I want to know if I may use to logo in and
> > distribute it as a part of a Fedora Extras package.
> 
> Why isnt it helpful?  As long as you dont violate the guidelines you are
> free to include it. 

Out of curiosity I glanced over the issue. If these guidelines were
all one has to fulfill then he could be distributing Debian CDs with
this color-true, unstreatched logo. :)

What Hans is after is the permission context of trademark/logo usage,
not the technical ci/cd constraints.

Common sense sais that what Hans wants to do is OK, but the
authoritative people probably sit on the fedora-marketing list.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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