Calligra Branding Presentation & Draft of Guidelines

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 16 November 2011 Nov, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Personnaly I agree with the graphical aspect of the logo (ie make sure the 
> logo stands), one slight comment, you define a minimum size in centimeters, but 
> that we might need a size definition for use on a screen (ie website).
> 
> However, I am very skeptical about the where to use it part.
> 
> Looking at the legal use for KDE logo:
> 
> Copying of the KDE Logo is subject to the LGPL copyright license. Trading and 
> branding with the KDE Logo is subject to our trademark licence:
> * The KDE logo can be used freely as long as it is not used to refer to 
> products other than KDE itself. There is no formal procedure to use it.
> * Whilst not required you should acknowledge the KDE e.V.s rights by 
> mentioning "KDE, K Desktop Environment and the KDE Logo are trademarks of KDE 
> e.V."
> 
> And for debian:
> 
> The logo with “Debian” is released under the following license, due to ongoing 
> concerns about trademarks.
> 
> Copyright (c) 1999 Software in the Public Interest 
> This logo or a modified version may be used by anyone to refer to the Debian 
> project, but does not indicate endorsement by the project.
> 
> Note: we would appreciate that you make the image a link to 
> http://www.debian.org/ if you use it on a web page.
> 
> 
> Personnally I would simply copy the one from Debian, it is simple and covers 
> everything (as the one from KDE trigger a parser error in my mind between the 
> LGPL license and the you can only use it to refer to KDE...).
> 

Well, I have to see that I really agree with Cyrille. The proposed license document is, I find, complicated, overly restrictive and very unfriendly. I want people around the world to be able to spread their love for Calligra, not force them to fork the brand.
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Boudewijn Rempt
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