[Mesa-dev] New Mesa3D.org website proposal

Eric Engestrom eric at engestrom.ch
Thu May 7 14:18:22 UTC 2020


On Thursday, 2020-05-07 16:07:00 +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:05 -0500, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> > Looks shiny but....
> > 
> > We need to be very careful here. One of the big no-nos with Khronos
> > trademark rules is using logos for things where implementations
> > aren't
> > conformant.  Mesa has been living in a mirky in-between land for a
> > while and everything has been mostly fine.  We've been very careful
> > to
> > *not* say that Mesa is an implementation of any Khronos APIs.
> > Instead, we say that Mesa is an open-source software project that
> > contains implementations and that some of those implementations are
> > conformant.  That page full of logos makes me concerned that we're
> > going to risk getting into trouble.  Khronos marketing cares A LOT
> > about logos.
> 
> As I wrote in the e-mail, I've already clarified the logo-usage with
> Khronos. They are happy with it as-is.

Could you post their concerns/guidelines here, so that we can all know
what can and cannot be on the website and make sure we never cross the
line with future changes?


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