Allan:
We typically have our lawyers review official documents that relate to legal issues such as trademark before we make changes to them. Is this because the Wiki version of our Guidelines is not yet official? Most official GNOME legal documents should probably be in http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing. The Wiki makes more sense for draft documents. I am not trying to pick on you Allan since I know The GNOME Foundation has not been so good about keeping our fgo website up-to-date. (e.g. bugzilla bugs #629334, #644932 for two examples of issues with just the licensing page). At any rate, can you also ask the legal-l...@gnome.org mailing list to encourage our legal experts to also review these changes? My personal thoughts are that I think it is good for the Brand Guidelines to highlight GNOME 3, to discuss any particular guidelines that relate to using the GNOME brand with GNOME 3, differences in how the brand should be used with GNOME 3 versus earlier versions of GNOME, etc. However, I think statements like "The principle product that is produced by the GNOME Project is GNOME 3" and "GNOME is a word in and of itself. It primarily refers to the GNOME Project, designating the organization which produces GNOME 3, GNOME Applications and GNOME Developer Technologies." may need some rewording (e.g. "principle" or "primarily" only associated with version 3 of GNOME). Why do we want to use language that may even give the appearance of limiting how the GNOME community can reasonably use its own brand? Brian
I spent some time elaborating our brand guidelines [1] today. The sections that I added are marked as draft status. Feedback would be welcome. To date, the guidelines only addressed the GNOME logo and its usage. My aim with the update is to expand them to cover terminology and additional visual design patterns, such as font usage and colour palette. The updates I have added roughly correspond to the approach that was developed for the new gnome.org website. They also attempt to reflect the recent moduleset reorganisation. Some of the terminology guidelines are a departure from previous practice, particularly in the use of 'GNOME 3' instead of 'The GNOME Desktop'. Likewise, the inclusion of a GNOME Project tag line - 'We make great software available to all' - is a major step. So, give me your thoughts! Best, Allan [1] http://live.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines
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