Long-term plan for Fedora logo usage
This thread gives me an opportunity to let everyone in on the long-term
strategy for Fedora logo usage.
In the short term, I am the gate for Fedora logo requests. I've just
returned from holiday, and I'll be authorizing logo usage requests myself
later today. I'll also be noting the general patterns of WHY people are
requesting usage, gathering instances of "typical cases."
Once I've got a good sample, I'll take these "typical cases" to counsel,
and we'll build a clickthru usage policy. People will be able to read a
set of very basic guidelines, agree to them, give us contact information,
and then they will be granted logo images and permission automatically.
Should take no more than a couple of months.
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
>>
> I think that the problem is that Use of the Fedora Logo needs to be
> 'authorised'. Of Course, people are allowed to sell `Fedora Core` for
> as much as they want (as long as they do not violate GPL).
No. We dont need to authorize each and every instance. We can setup
guidelines just like we have the trademark guidelines and ask anyone who
wants to redistribute Fedora CD's and use the logos to go through these
guidelines and follow them. The current guidelines available
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Logo are *temporary*.
>
> But how much money are we really going to get out of them?
>
We dont really need money from anyone who merely redistributes Fedora
without any modifications as long as they follow the very reasonable
guidelines put forward. We can request them to contribute to Fedora
Foundation (remember its a non-profit and the amount can only used for
Fedora) say a fixed percentage of sales returns in exchange for vendor
listings and joint promotions perhaps but thats not absolutely necessary
if they want to just do things on their own.
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