Calligra Branding Presentation & Draft of Guidelines

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 16 November 2011 10:51, Cyrille Berger Skott <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:

> 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...).


Update: Debian changed its mind and gives permission to use its logo
everywhere: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/03/03/1658236

I am interested in your opinions...

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