Ubuntu logo "deviations" - political use of the Ubuntu Logo

[Christer Edwards]

On 4/1/06, yann <freedoomer at mandragor.org> wrote:
> The Ubuntu logo is becoming more and more misused for political goals,
> like in http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=37241 (which
> is a 1st April Joke) and in
> http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/img/avatars/9743.jpg , which is avatar of
> someone called "urss" (=ussr) on our french forum (which isn't).
>
> I don't really know what to do about this; should we let people do what
> they want with the logo? I personnally don't like the association of
> Ubuntu with communism, as with any other politic system in fact.
> Do other locoteams have the same problem? Is there an official position
> of Canonical?
>
> Yann Hamon - Ubuntu-fr
As far as I understand there are trademark policies concerning the use
of the logo.  You can see more details here
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/TrademarkPolicy.

I agree that combining the logo with political organizations is not a
good idea.  I don't know who should contact those people, but it
shouldn't be something that is done.  They seem to be in violation of
the policy from what I can read.

Christer

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