[Bf-committers] Blender logo usage guidelines

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

This page was meant as service for people who want to use the logo, 
that's all.
In case you want to make a derived product, under GPL, that's an entire 
different issue, and not described in the page.

If there's need for information about that, I'll try to construct a 
good wording of it. I'd like to know then also what cases it's for. All 
distros I know that compile and spread Blender can just call it so, and 
use the desktop icons in our code, and the Blender logo as described in 
the logo page.

This "20% width" thing is confusing yes, it's been picked arbitrary a 
bit, to illustrate that it should be used as a logo, not as a page wide 
illustration. Obviously this width is a designer guideline, not related 
to mobile phone viewers.

Lastly; it is quite common to use a copyrighted and non-GPL logo for 
free/open source products. Even gnu.org restricts using the gnu head. 
This is like a signature, a verification of software developed by the 
blender.org community.

-Ton-

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On 5 Apr, 2009, at 7:14, joe wrote:

> The blender logo is trademarked by the Blender Foundation, and is
> separate from the source code.  So e.g. you can fork blender, but you
> can't use the logo (though you may be able to use the name "blender"
> or a derivative, I'm not sure).  The logo really has nothing to do
> with the source code.
>
> Eh, that's my understanding of it, anyway, I'm not a lawyer, so take
> that with a grain of salt.
>
> Joe
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Mathias Panzenböck
> <grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net> wrote:
>> I just wanted to point out that this point is kinda unclear:
>> The logo should be used in a small size, for print or website usage 
>> the width of
>> the Blender logo should be less than 20% of the page (or packaging) 
>> width.
>>
>> 20% of the width of a webpage? A webpage designer has no way of 
>> enforcing that.
>> Consider only the simple case when someone views a webpage with a 
>> mobile browser
>> like on a smartphone. There it can easily happen that even small 
>> images suddenly
>> fill the whole page width (100%).
>>
>> This all obviously is not GPL compatible, so I guess we will see a 
>> "mixer" 3D
>> modeler (or similar) in debian in a short time (like there is "ice 
>> weasel"
>> instead of firefox).
>>
>>        -panzi
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