Re: [incubation] Project logo approval

[Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-09-14 5:22 PM, Billings, Jay Jay wrote:

I was under the impression that new logos needed to go through the CQ process? We had to do that for the new ICE logo that is on its webpage.

I could be wrong, but the main thing that we care about is that there is a paper trail to support that the logo was provided to the project under the terms of that project's license(s).

There are two things at play here:

1. Document that the new logo is to be associated with the project's trademark. That pulls it under the protection of the Eclipse Trademark Guidelines.
2. Document that the copyright of the bits that make up the logo have been provided under the correct open source license(s).

We may need to improve our documentation around this....

Jay

Jay Jay Billings
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Twitter Handle: @jayjaybillings

On Sep 14, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

FWIW, I don't think these meets the bar of being a derivative. But a do share Wayne's concern about possibly infringing TeX's mark. 

Mike Milinkovich

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Please note new email address. 

On Sep 14, 2017, at 4:51 PM, Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In general, no approval is required for a project logo.

Board of Directors approval is required, however, for logos that incorporate the Eclipse Logo, or otherwise derive from it [1]. I'm not quite sure whether or not this logo can be considered derivative; I'm thinking that the use of similar colours is just evocative of it. I'll leave it to you to make the call.

Please make sure that the logo isn't violating anybody else's trademark usage guidelines. Does TeX have any restrictions on how their logo can be used?

HTH,

Wayne

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php#ProperEclipse

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Torkild U. Resheim <torkildr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I’ve been searching and reading the Project Handbook for information on the proper procedure to have a project logo approved, but could not find anything of use. We have created a logo[1] for Eclipse TeXlipse that we would like to have approved.

[1] https://github.com/eclipse/texlipse/issues/35

Best regards,

Torkild

(Eclipse TeXlipse project lead)

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