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To: sajolida
CC: veracrypt-contact, The Tails public development discussion list
Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] Reusing the VeraCrypt icon for a custom mounter in Tails
Hi Sajolida,

Thank you sharing information about VeraCrypt integration in Tails. The
survey results are especially very interesting to us since this is the
first time we can quantitive feedback about users and their usage patterns.

We have no problem with you reusing VeraCrypt logo in Tails. The logo
itself is licensed under Apache License 2.0. I don't know if this can
help integrate it into Tails. In case of problem, we can make exceptions
for you.

Concerning the icons you sent, they are ok for us although we think the
icon with VC will be more appealing to users than the V version.

Voilà voilà...don't hesitate to contact us if you need other information.

Cheers,
--
Mounir IDRASSI


On 17/07/2018 17:49, sajolida wrote:
> Hi VeraCrypt,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of Tails: https://tails.boum.org/.
>
> I'm putting in copy our public development mailing list.
>
> Over the last months, we've been working on integrating VeraCrypt in
> Tails and GNOME in general. The native VeraCrypt application not being
> included in Debian, we've opted for extending the native GNOME
> technologies to support opening VeraCrypt volumes. (We are not working
> on allowing the creation of new volumes in GNOME.)
>
> See our pull requests on:
>
> GNOME Disks:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/issues/84#note_222551
>
> GNOME Shell:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/merge_requests/4
>
> While doing user testing on our design for this feature we discovered
> that Tails users, especially when trying to unlock file containers, were
> almost always looking for something called VeraCrypt in the Applications
> menu to unlock their containers.
>
> To help them on their way, we designed a very simple GNOME applications
> that offers a file chooser to select a file container and then try to
> mount it using the underlying GNOME technologies. We called this app
> "VeraCrypt Mounter".
>
> The code is very minimal and it performed well during usability testing.
>
> The code:
> https://gitlab.com/segfault3/veracrypt-mounter.git
>
> Sketch of the interface:
> https://labs.riseup.net/code/attachments/download/1842/veracrypt-mounter.png
>
> We're now designing an icon for this application and we wanted to check
> with you to which extent we could reuse the VeraCrypt logo to make a
> visual reference to your native implementation.
>
> For example, we created the two icons in attachment. One reusing the
> full "VC" icon and one reusing only the "V" part of the logo.
>
> Would these be fine to use?
>
> What are the license and terms of use of the VeraCrypt logo?
>
> Note that VeraCrypt Mounter is only meant to be distributed as part of
> Tails and the icon would only appear in the Applications menu of GNOME
> in Tails. See screenshot in attachment.
>
> NB: You might also be interested in reading the results of the
> quantitative survey that we did as user research before designing our
> solution. It gives interesting insights on the popularity of the main
> features of VeraCrypt:
>
> https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/veracrypt/
>
> Cheers,
>
>