[Mesa-dev] New Mesa3D.org website proposal

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 16:49 +0200, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> On Thursday, 2020-05-07 16:26:19 +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 16:18 +0200, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > You can find their logo guidelines here:
> > https://www.khronos.org/legal/trademarks/
> > 
> > But because Mesa is in a special eternal conformant/non-conformant
> > limbo, I sent an email to clarify. I've posted the response I got
> > here:
> > 
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/snippets/996
> > 
> > I think the first link is going to be what most people care about,
> > though.
> 
> OK, so basically
> - make sure we use the up-to-date, unmodified logos from Khronos
> - make sure we are clearly stating that the project is not conformant
> as a whole,
>   but as you said only some "combinations of drivers and APIs" are.
> 
> I think that should be easy enough to not mess up :)

Yeah, I think it's pretty easy to conform to :)