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Re: [incubation] Project logo approval
The image is intellectual property and so is subject to the Eclipse IP Due Diligence process. Whether or not a CQ is required, basically depends on who created it and under what circumstances.

I (perhaps incorrectly) assumed that the "we" that Torkild referred to having created the logo was the project team. If that is the case, then we can reasonable argue that it is in scope and under the supervision of the PMC (and so can just be checked into the project code repository).

If you're just not sure, then it's never really wrong to create a CQ (or connect with the IP Team) to check.

Wayne


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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@eclipse-foundation.org> 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
Please note new email address. 

On Sep 14, 2017, at 4:51 PM, Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton@eclipse-foundation.org> 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


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.


Best regards,
Torkild
(Eclipse TeXlipse project lead)

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