OSS Trademark Policies
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Many of the established open source groups and foundations have trademark policy pages. This is a partial listing; if you know of other trademark policy pages please add them
- http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
- Apache Software Foundation official trademark policy
- http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_trademark
- trademark policy on "Perl" itself (i.e. the language)
- http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/
- Nicely detailed about all Mozilla projs
- http://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/
- the basics on "Python"
- http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/TrademarkUseGuidelines
- very basics on "Chandler"
- http://www.opensource.org/trademark
- OSI's own "approved license" mark
- http://www.php.net/download-logos.php
- mostly just icon downloads of "PHP" mark
- http://www.eclipse.org/legal/logo_guidelines.php
- Eclipse Foundation holds trademark to most project names
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines
- very detailed
- http://linuxmark.org/
- The Linux Foundation rules on "Linux"
- http://community.kde.org/Promo
- Branding, events, and other KDE standards
- http://subversion.org/legal/trademark-policy.html
- Since superceded by the ASF's policies when it became Apache Subversion
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trademark
- Controlled by SFC on behalf of Sugar Labs
- http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TradeMark_Policy
- LibreOffice is a registered mark; includes a services policy, and notes "Thus uses of the marks in a domain name or company name without explicit written permission from TDF are prohibited."
- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Logo_Usage_Guidelines
- specific guidelines about the AOO/OOo logo