Karsten, On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote: > Thanks Rich for drawing this forward, I had missed it. (I generally > handle all the trademark usage queries.) > > The key reference is this one, the trademark guidelines: > > https://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/ > > That document should give the GNOME project all of the authorization and > guidelines on how to use and not use the CentOS marks. > > Fabiano -- if you have any further questions, you may also direct them > to centos-tm at centos.org . > > Rich -- it looks as if we need to update or clarify on the wiki around > the appearance of the (R) in the marks. There is a link in a section > there called "Usage Restrictions"[1] but it isn't terribly visible. I > just added a new short paragraph at the top of the page referring to the > guidelines. My understanding is that we can use all the CentOS marks provided here[0]. However, those unfortunately are not looking good enough on Boxes and we'd like to use, if possible, just the logo as in here[1] Would that be possible? As far as I could understand that would be a violation of the trademark. [0]: https://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Brand/Logo#head-bf605cecf99c819d5a39e726ffb928999e1a13e6 [1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CentOS#/media/File:CentOS_color_logo.svg > > Best regards, > > - Karsten > > [1] > https://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Brand/Logo#head-f379d7da0b5da9a7161148c5c9a093a00085975b > > > > > On 09/18/2018 07:23 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> Bumping this thread in the hopes that we can get an official opinion >> from someone on the board. >> >> In particular, the guidelines at >> https://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Brand/Logo seem to indicate that we're >> not supposed to use the logo without the wordmark, but we do that all >> the time, even on official swag. What's the official ruling, and who can >> we go to for further clarification? >> >> --Rich >> >> On 6/19/18 7:29 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: >>> People, >>> >>> Firstly, sorry for the cross-list post (centos-devel and centos-docs). >>> >>> I'd like to reach you in order to ask for a formal authorization to >>> use CentOS logo on GNOME Boxes[0]. GNOME Boxes already shows a few >>> other distro's logos as you can check here[1]. >>> >>> Would be possible to get the explicit confirmation that we could use >>> CentOS logo as well? >>> >>> [0]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes >>> [1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/raw/master/README.logos >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >> > > -- > Karsten Wade | Community Architect | @quaid > Red Hat Open Source and Standards (OSAS) : @redhatopen > https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://osci.io > gpg: AD0E0C41 | https://red.ht/sig > -- Fabiano Fidêncio
