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[Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yo all,

I've just read your messages. My thoughts:

   - GNOME are slow, even slower than us :P. Technically we shouldn't have
   any problem about the logo, even the replies were friendly and nice. I
   don't even know how often they have meetings to discuss licensing matters
   like ours.
   - As Tim says, we implicitly have their blessing. We already had it when
   we were misusing the GNOME foot; there's no reason to have any issue now
   that we've virtually removed any possible infringement of their branding.
   - In all fairness, when we were infringing stuff they took like 8 months
   to reply; I suspect that they will take much longer now that all is alright.

*IMHO, the new logo should be publicly announced*, it's already in the
wiki, plymouth, syslinux, ubiquity, etc.

Best regards,
Alfredo

On 31 August 2015 at 09:29, Patrik Bubák <bubapa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> About that (WOGUE), when they posted the update on the logo it got the
> attention of the audience of course and among them I'm pretty sure quite a
> few Gnome guys, so I think they are aware of what's going on and if they
> would have something to add I'm sure they would reach out to us.
>
> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 17:21 +1000, Tim wrote:
>
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> On 31/08/15 16:21, Patrik Bubák wrote:> I understand and agree, but as we thought about it, the new logo eliminates all confusion, so we don't know what is it for them to "approve".> Maybe only if they weren't OK with us using the word "GNOME" in our name at all, only that would change everything, but that would give us> also very little time to change the entire concept again, because creating a logo is not an easy process as many of our community members like> to think. It involves extensive research and evaluation before we may proceed with the conversion of gathered ideas onto canvas and digital> and then presenting it to you and Tim and then go public.
> I guess the problem really is that the lists where trademark stuff gets discussed are private. However we have always done the right thing, (the
> use of the roundel was more just a misunderstanding) and pretty sure the GNOME board realises that. Right from day1 we had discussion with both
> camps, over the name Ubuntu GNOME, so that is pretty safe unless they decided to re-neg the approval. They would have already come after us if
> they were unhappy with distro name or domain name etc. They certainly went after wogue (when it was worldofgnome.org or something).>> At our pace, this could take months, which would mean that we would have to use their logo longer, which they would not be happy with.
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> Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it the *Ice
> Cream Principle*. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one condition:
> they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going to be
> chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on what's
> cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
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