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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:37:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Licia <licia@o-o.org>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux)
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(trimmed for brevity)
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 11:19:33 -0600, Licia wrote:
> >
> > I've placed some possible examples of logos at the following urls :
> >
> > http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat1.jpg
> > http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat2.gif
> > http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat3.gif
>
> I'd go for number 3. "Certified" doesn't sound so hot to me.
>
>
> BTW, it would make comparison easier if you'd
> pack them in an .html page so they could all appear on the screen
> together.
Consider it done. The page can be found at http://www.o-o.org/misc/logos.html
along with the updated images
>
> > They are not very high quality, and would need permission from
> > at least two copyright holders,
>
> Who's the second? I'm assuming that you don't include FreeBSD in the
> list, since this is a FreeBSD effort. AFAIK the only person who needs
> to give permission is Kirk McKusick. I don't expect you'd have
> problems there.
>
The second would be the person who initially created the image on
www.freebsd.org I modified to create fbsd-compat1.jpg... it would
be rude to actually use and distribute that without their permission.
> > but show what I seem to understand from this discussion. Please
> > feel free to correct me :)
>
> I still think we need at least two distinct stickers: "Works with
> FreeBSD" and "designed for FreeBSD" are a good start. Somehow we need
> to encourage people to put our sticker on anything that works with
> FreeBSD, and yet leave that little extra which might make them decide
> to port their product directly.
>
> Greg
> --
> See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers
> finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key
>
I have added the two current images as I understand them from the
discussion... again, these are mainly to help myself envision what's
being discussed, and I am not advancing these as official, authoritative,
or even as "good enough to use" :)
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