[haiku] Re: Rethinking the Haiku Distro Guidelines

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:07:28 +0800

On 2009-10-13 at 07:46:30 [+0800], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2. We do not want third parties releasing Haiku development code. If
> > someone does this, it must strip away all relevant trademarks, logos,
> > etc that would identify it as Haiku and it must clearly indicate it
> > is
> > based on unreleased code. Any other uses of Haiku code must follow
> > these same rules.
> 
> While I'm currently preferring Jorge's idea to solve this issue with
> the trademark policies alone, if we wanted to go the full distance, we
> shouldn't brand our nightly builds as Haiku then, either, because that
> could be counted as a trademark usage policy violation, too. Not that
> we actually release them properly, but it's basically a similar thing.

I'm not opposed to having a different desktop wall paper indicating that 
that those are development versions. Anything else is pretty ridiculous, 
though.

CU, Ingo

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