OSS Trademark Policies

From Model Trademark Guidelines
Revision as of 00:47, 18 March 2013 by ShaneCurcuru (talk | contribs) (Include listing of a number of OSS project policies already in existence)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search

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Since superceded by the ASF's policies when it became Apache Subversion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