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

[Lionel Dricot]

IMHO, there's no big problem with this. It's not legal but, in this
case, in just a tiny drop in the ocean. Look at the incredible number
of Coca-cola deviations or Microsoft deviations !

It's the proof that the logo is good and more widely recognized ;-)

On 4/1/06, Christer Edwards <christer.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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