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[Karen Palen]

As a suggestion,  the [image:
Image:PoweredByOpenSimulator.png]<http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Image:PoweredByOpenSimulator.png>image
might be added to the wifi welcome and splash screens in a way that
shows an example of the intended and correct use. This would not only help
educate users, but doing so establishes an "informal trademark".

Another thought is the possibility of making one or more of these images an
official registered trademark of the project.

Registering a trademark is not hard to do, but registration would eliminate
some potential abuses as "cybersqautting". For example this would be where
someone decides to use a close variant of the name/logo in a malicious or
confusing way such as registering the domain name "OpenSimulator.com"
(rather than .org) or even "ImprovedOpenSimulator.com".

The standard for a trademark is "possibility of confusion", the standard for
copyright (including BSD) is a "literal copy" or "derived work" which is
much narrower.

Karen

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM, <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I created a page for OpenSimulator graphics:
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/OpenSim_Graphics
>
> If you create variations of this art, and wish to make it publicly
> available for others to use, please add it there in a similar manner to the
> ones already there.
>
> Thanks.
> Crista
>
>
>
> Jeroen van Veen wrote:
>
>> Do you have the same icon with an opaque background as well?
>>
>> Jeroen
>>
>> On Saturday 21 August 2010 17:15:39 Rich White wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a chicklet icon perhaps to get the ball rolling:
>>> http://twitpic.com/2gue0y
>>>
>>>
>>> ====
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM,  <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> P.S. For people who want to give credit to the project, the "correct"
>>>> way
>>>> of expressing it is
>>>> "Powered by OpenSim".
>>>> At some point it would be nice to have a logo with those words in it.
>>>> Examples:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.google.com/images?q=powered+by+apache&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla
>>>>
>>>> :en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=5eVvTPSNMYK
>>>>
>>>> 2sAPu2cCXAg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&
>>>> biw=1306&bih=933
>>>> http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla
>>>>
>>>> %3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=1306&bih=933&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=powered+by+CentO
>>>> S&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
>>>>
>>>> diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> -1 on this.
>>>>> I'm generally reluctant in using the term "OpenSim" for anything other
>>>>> than the name of this project. It's bad enough that bloggers and the
>>>>> public keep confusing the project with its uses, let's not give any
>>>>> more suggestions in that direction. OpenSim is the infrastructure
>>>>> project, not its uses. The users of OpenSim are the world operators,
>>>>> not the people who login to these worlds.
>>>>>
>>>>> In other words, when people login to an OpenSim-based world they are
>>>>> not
>>>>> "logging in to OpenSim"; they are logging in to a world that someone
>>>>> runs based on OpenSim. This may seem like an insignificant distinction,
>>>>> but it's not, it's huge.
>>>>>
>>>>> So let's leave it with the generic message that is has now. The config
>>>>> var is there for people to customize it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ai Austin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In a recent commit by Justin he suggested that if a change was made to
>>>>>> the default viewer welcome message, it would be useful to get the
>>>>>> thoughts of others first. I do appreciate that most folks will alter
>>>>>> the string anyway, but it is useful out of the box to have useful
>>>>>> messages. And I had suggested a change to help differentiate things a
>>>>>> bit in an immediately visible form at the user end, and to brand the
>>>>>> system in the default.  Can I suggest this change and see what others
>>>>>> think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Opensim.ini.example         "Welcome to OpenSim"
>>>>>> Robust.ini.example            "Welcome to OpenSim Grid"
>>>>>> Robust.HG.ini.example       "Welcome to OpenSim Hypergrid"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This would have the nice effect of differentiating which
>>>>>> [Architecture]
>>>>>> is being used immediately.
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