[psf-trademarks] Fwd: Use of slightly modified python logo

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Chris Wayne <chris.wayne at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hey Bhavani,
> Looks like I got the go-ahead from python Trademarks committee to use
> the logo in unity-lens-pypi!
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [psf-trademarks] Fwd: Use of slightly modified python logo
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:49:07 -0500
> From: David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx>
> To: Chris Wayne <chris.wayne at canonical.com>
> CC: psf-trademarks <psf-trademarks at python.org>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Did you receive Marc-Andre Lemburg's reply earlier that said:
>
> Just to make sure: you are referring to the small white Python logo
>> in the side bar at the bottom, right ? Could you perhaps send just the
>> image that you are referring to ?
>>
>> If the shape of the logo is unchanged, this looks like nominative use
>> of the logo, which would be fine.
>>
>
> This is correct and the opinion of the Trademarks Committee.  I had not
> seen the logo apart from its presence in the hard to discern video prior to
> your email today, and cannot find it attached previously in my email
> archive.  But looking at that right now confirms that the shape is
> nominative use.
>
> Yours, David Mertz
> Chair, PSF Trademarks Committee
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Carl Trachte <ctrachte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The gray icon looks OK, but it's small.  I don't know if there's an
>> svg of this.  Because it's a png when you blow it up (zoom in) it
>> looks bad.
>>
>> Basically it looks OK, no objections here.  An svg representation of
>> the image would be better though.
>>
>> My 2 cents.
>>
>> Carl T.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Chris Wayne <chris.wayne at canonical.com>
>> Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: [psf-trademarks] Use of slightly modified python logo
>> To: "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com>
>> Cc: psf-trademarks at python.org
>>
>>
>> On 11/16/2012 10:16 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> > On 16.11.2012 16:09, Chris Wayne wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have created an app, specifically a lens for Unity (the Ubuntu desktop
>> >> environment) and would like to use a slightly modified (monochromed)
>> >> version of the logo.  What my lens does is allow a user to search
>> >> through PyPi for python packages straight from their OS.
>> >>
>> >> An example can be found here:
>> >> http://vimeo.com/50720267
>> >
>> > Just to make sure: you are referring to the small white Python logo
>> > in the side bar at the bottom, right ? Could you perhaps send just the
>> > image that you are referring to ?
>> >
>> > If the shape of the logo is unchanged, this looks like nominative use
>> > of the logo, which would be fine.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>>
>> Hello,
>> I was just wondering if there was an update on this (I had sent a reply
>> with the icon attached) and was wondering about the use of the python
>> logo as the result item icon (for each package found) since it is
>> essentially a link to pypi.  If I get a +1 from you guys, this can be
>> pushed to the Ubuntu Software Center, and reach a much greater number of
>> people :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Chris
>>
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>
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Thanks for the headsup Chris. Looks fine here. I'll take another look tonight

Regards,

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Bhavani Shankar
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