Brian Cameron wrote: > 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).
I wasn't aware that the brand guidelines are official or legal documents. They are guidelines. Maybe the foundation should bless them with officialdom... I'm not sure what that would achieve though. > At any rate, can you also ask the legal-l...@gnome.org mailing list to > encourage our legal experts to also review these changes? I'll certainly check with our legal advisors. That said, I don't think I've made any changes that will have gone against our trademarks. I haven't touched the sections on the logo, for instance. > 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). I could add 'GNOME 2' as a term, but wouldn't that be rather backwards looking? I'm not sure how much sense it makes to build a brand around what we've done in the past. It's what we're doing and where we're going that count. > 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? The consistent use of terminology and visual imagery is a vital part of building a brand. The guidelines are intended to encourage people to promote the GNOME brand in the same way as the HIG is supposed to help people design usable interfaces. Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list