Re: [odf-adoption] OASIS logo and trademark issues?

[Charles Schulz <charles-h.schulz@arsaperta.com>]

Hello Daniel,

thank you for your proposal. I have several questions for you:
-what is the licence of the OD fellowship's icons?
-knowing that we will eventually end up with only one extension for any
ODF formatted file, how could icons be relevant?
-do we need icons? shouldn't the icons be the ones designed and used by
each ODF-compliant application (like you would have OOo, Workplace, etc.)?

Best,
Charles-H. Schulz.

Daniel Carrera a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Earlier we talked about a logo for OpenDocument. Carol Geyer suggested
> that we reuse the OASIS logo and I think we sort of agreed on that.
>
> Now I'm talking to someone making "MobileOffice" for handhelds (on the
> Symbian OS) and he's asking about icons. So now we're talking about
> icons on the OD Fellowship mailing list. I'm suggesting that the icons
> take the form of "OASIS logo + something else". The OASIS logo would
> denote OpenDocument and the something else the file type.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> * Are there any trademark restrictions on software makers using the
> OASIS logo for OpenDocument icons? If there are, it'll be important to
> get those sorted.
>
> * Would the Adoption TC be interested in receiving copies of the icons
> that are made and putting them on the website? This could be useful in
> encouraging others to make similar icons, keeping the OASIS logo.
>
> Best,
> Daniel.


-- 
Charles-H.Schulz,
Associé / Associate,
Ars Aperta.