Skip to content

Possible legal issues with the logo #3

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Closed
KOLANICH opened this issue Dec 18, 2020 · 1 comment
Closed

Possible legal issues with the logo #3

KOLANICH opened this issue Dec 18, 2020 · 1 comment

Comments

@KOLANICH
Copy link

KOLANICH commented Dec 18, 2020

I once wanted to use a logo in colors of python in order to highlight that my project is intended to be used with python (it is essentially python bindings to some third-party code), but feeled like they can be trademarked.

I have contacted the email and asked for clarifiaction and permission. I was told that currently they don't intend to trademark python colors and that if I start using my logo, I'd "be" a my trademark (damn this legal shit, I wish there would be no trademark laws at all!). But the colors are already a de-facto trademark.

I asked if they can either give me a digitally signed text that the use of the colors in my logo is not considered trademark violation, or change their trademark policy to clarify which uses of colors are explicitly allowed. I was answered that this is the decision which is up to the board, and the board won't do that for me unless maybe for a lot of money.

IMHO this FUD situation is a bit annoying.

https://pyright.blogspot.com/2011/02/svg-xml-and-python-logo.html
Nuitka/Nuitka-website#19
PyAV-Org/PyAV#728
derb12/mcetl#13
https://github.com/ReagentX/Logria-py/issues/147
python-trio/trio#1828
amcc1996/symbeam#7
#3
fatiando/pooch#222
aiortc/aiortc#442
MatthijsKamstra/haxepython#3

@KOLANICH
Copy link
Author

The issue seems to be resolved by publishing a DKIM-signed emails from the PSF employee giving the consent + some timestamping of public keys using WebArchive + DoH.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant