On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 13:00 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > So, I'm going to approach this from my experience on the GNOME board. > The GNOME logo is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license, which allows > people to modify and reuse it. But it's also trademarked, which means > you can't use it in a way that would imply GNOME is doing something > it isn't. This is deliberate, and was informed by Karen Sandler > (actual lawyer, previously executive direction of GNOME Foundation, > now at Software Freedom Conservancy). So, for example, there was one > of those "fish exfoliate your feet" places that used a modification > of the GNOME logo. This is allowed under the copyright license, and > it's not a violation of trademark because it's a different industry. > But if you used the GNOME logo to make, for example, a Linux > distribution, then there would be a clear trademark problem. > > Again, not speaking for Red Hat here, but this is what I'd advise > CentOS (and most other open source projects) to do. Use an open > license like a CC license, but use trademark law to protect our > identity and reputation. Releasing the work under the terms of CC-BY-SA license and using trademark law to protect it is totally fine to me. I agree with it. I will add a new section in the repository where the design sources are stored to explicitly set this. > Also, I am definitely not a lawyer, but Alain I think you legally > hold the copyright on the new logo, unless you did a copyright > assignment. I haven't done any copyright assignment. I am ok holding the copyright on the new logo if that would be the case. > I've been wanting to revamp our trademark use guidelines to be more > permissive in certain cases (for example, hosting providers showing > that they support CentOS). It would be nice to come up with wording > for these kinds of cases, and to have some ready-made badge with the > logo they can use. We have an image for a similar purpose in the httpd testing page, but probably it needs more work to fit the need. Here is the link: https://gitlab.com/areguera/centos-brand/-/blob/v2/Sources/centos-poweredby-logo.svg Thanks Shaun, for sharing your experience in GNOME. It has been very useful. -- Alain Reguera Delgado <alain.reguera at gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20220903/0fbfc2fa/attachment-0002.sig>
