Re: [Qemu-devel] my attempt at new QEMU website

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:57:57AM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
> 
> On Oct 20, 2016, at 4:30 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:53:55PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> 
> >>>> another small PSA. :)  I have created a small but hopefully useful
> >>>> example of a new QEMU website at http://qemu-bonzini.rhcloud.com/.  The
> >>>> site aims at providing and also a home for blog posts about QEMU.
> >>>> 
> >>>> The site resides in a single git tree, so that requests to modify the
> >>>> pages (and even blog posts :)) can be posted to qemu-devel as usual.
> >>>> 
> >>>> The blog post in there is dummy, and the "blog" link will be removed
> >>>> from navigation until there's a first post, if the site goes online.
> >>>> 
> >>>> The site is designed to live together with the wiki and provide a
> >>>> migration path for qemu-project.org, from the wiki to a standalone
> >>>> website.  For example:
> >>>> 
> >>>> - http://qemu-bonzini.rhcloud.com/Download redirects to the new page
> >>>> http://qemu-bonzini.rhcloud.com/download
> >>>> 
> >>>> - http://qemu-bonzini.rhcloud.com/BiteSizedTasks redirects to the wiki
> >>>> page http://wiki.qemu-project.org/BiteSizedTasks
> >>>> 
> >>>> - http://qemu-bonzini.rhcloud.com/foobar is a 404 page
> >>>> 
> >>>> Impressions, ideas and lart-ing for my feeble attempts at Javascript
> >>>> (now I understand why people are so keen on stackoverflow!) and graphic
> >>>> design are welcome.  (Yes, the icons in the homepage are not definitive).
> >> 
> >> I really like the homepage you made. It looks really good. Reminds me of 
> >> ReactOS's site.
> >> 
> >> My idea is to have a page for each emulator: qemu-system-ppc, 
> >> qemu-system-i386,...
> >> 
> >> I'm thinking icons and logos for operating systems could be on the
> >> emulator's page that can run that emulator. Maybe a few links to HD
> >> image files of preinstalled operating systems would help the user too.
> > 
> > Using official icons/logos from various OS vendors/products is likely to
> > stumble into trademark usage restrictions/problems, whereby you need to
> > get permission for usage from the trademark holder. As such it is best
> > to avoid using any logos unless they're clearly under a trademark rule
> > that allows us to use them.
> 
> So what you are saying is we can't display a Windows logo or an Apple logo?

Yes.

> I am sure I have seen plenty of websites with these logos displayed.

Some sites will have permission to use them in certain scenarios, but
many/most sites are likely just violating trademarks.

Regards,
Daniel
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