Re: Necessitas logo

On Thursday 02 June 2011 12:39:00 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Thursday 02 June 2011 10:53:44 Alin Marin Elena wrote:
> > the comment  made me laugh...
> > the logo is fine from my point of view... Always would be people that
> > would associate things in a very strange way and do simplistic
> > associations...
> 
> Well that's true. I once had a mail about an article I wrote in Linux
> Journal about Nepomuk saying we should change the name because Hitler's
> mother's maiden name was Nepomuk (I never checked if that was true)
> 
> > the comment makes sense if necessitas would be some political movement...
> > please do not try to bring politics into software...
> 
> That could be an argument for not putting political logos on software
> frameworks ;-) Seriously though, I'm more bothered about the use of the
> Android logo - I don't know Google's trademark rules on that and maybe
> Bogdan has some special permission, but perhaps it's own logo would be
> nicer anyway.
> 
> We'll see what Bogdan thinks.

The logo is a good joke, bringing Qt, Android & a touch of communism together. 
But aside from political issues, I bet neither Google nor Nokia can let this 
happen. They are legally bound to defend their trademarks, if they don't they 
loose them. So Bogdan will indeed probably have to find something else as I 
doubt hey will get permission. Note that the giving-of-permission is decided 
upon by branding and legal experts who are far less forgiving or nice than the 
engineering side of the company. I know, I deal with similar issues where I'd 
love to let a community member do something crazy and funny but legal & 
marketing simply blocks it...

> Cheers,
> Stu
> 
> > On Thu 02 Jun 2011 10:37:38 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > I'm part of the KDE promo team and an editor on dot.kde.org - we just
> > > published a news story [1] about the recent second alpha (btw, welcome
> > > to KDE!) and have got some positive responses. However, someone
> > > pointed out a potential problem with the logo in some cultures. Maybe
> > > it would be nice to have a new one?
> > > 
> > > If you're interested in asking the community to submit new designs, we
> > > could help with that by announcing a contest in a dot story... People
> > > could either mail you designs directly or we can make a page on
> > > community.kde.org to collect the designs.
> > > 
> > > Let us know if interested: [email protected]
> > > 
> > > [1] http://dot.kde.org/2011/06/01/kde-releases-second-alpha-necessitas
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Stu

 
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