{"thread":{"id":"50496","subject":"Git - logo commercial use","startedAt":"2019-02-13T19:34:26Z","lastAt":"2019-02-14T21:23:26Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Agnieszka Borcz","Mateusz Loskot","Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","Christian Couder"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"369248","messageId":"C9D9CE87-105E-4716-BF43-1D64239DD492@gmail.com","threadId":"50496","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git - logo commercial use","fromName":"Agnieszka Borcz","fromEmail":"agaborcz86@gmail.com","sentAt":"2019-02-13T19:34:21Z","receivedAt":"2019-02-13T19:34:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"agaborcz86@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Dear Sir/Madam,\n\nMy partner and I are in the initial stages of setting up an e-commerce business selling high-quality stickers of logos of popular software and libraries. We would mainly be marketing towards software developers, as there are many who enjoy placing stickers of their favorite tech on their laptops for display.\n\nWe would love to be able to include your logo as part of our inventory but aren’t sure of the restrictions regarding its use for commercial purposes, so we would like to find out what your policy is regarding this and if this would be a possibility?\n\nWe do not plan to modify or alter the logo in any way or claim that it is ours. To get a better idea of how we plan to use the logo, please see the following website, as this is very similar to what we plan to do: https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers.\n\nI see that others are already using your logo in a similar way on sites such as redbubble.com but wanted to double check your policy with you first.\n\nWe look forward to your response.\n\nWarm regards,\n\nAga Borcz"},{"id":"369249","messageId":"CABUeae8iKGg7n9ydRfWfYWQ_so+WaiPXtE252R+7=V8sBsATdA@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"50496","inReplyTo":"C9D9CE87-105E-4716-BF43-1D64239DD492@gmail.com","subject":"Re: Git - logo commercial use","fromName":"Mateusz Loskot","fromEmail":"mateusz@loskot.net","sentAt":"2019-02-13T19:44:30Z","receivedAt":"2019-02-13T19:44:59Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mateusz@loskot.net","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/fe5a0ce8995d4986f5c46aad6353e21717808da58e4bc710da1a100e247be239?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 20:34, Agnieszka Borcz wrote:\n>\n> Dear Sir/Madam,\n>\n> My partner and I are in the initial stages of setting up an e-commerce business selling high-quality stickers of logos of popular software and libraries. We would mainly be marketing towards software developers, as there are many who enjoy placing stickers of their favorite tech on their laptops for display.\n>\n> We would love to be able to include your logo as part of our inventory but aren’t sure of the restrictions regarding its use for commercial purposes, so we would like to find out what your policy is regarding this and if this would be a possibility?\n>\n> We do not plan to modify or alter the logo in any way or claim that it is ours. To get a better idea of how we plan to use the logo, please see the following website, as this is very similar to what we plan to do: https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers.\n\nI'd follow the following steps:\n\nGo to https://git-scm.com/downloads/logos\nScroll to the bottom\nFollow link to Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License\nRead and understand it, or hire a lawyer.\n\nBest regards,\n-- \nMateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net\n"},{"id":"369309","messageId":"878syik0m0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com","threadId":"50496","inReplyTo":"C9D9CE87-105E-4716-BF43-1D64239DD492@gmail.com","subject":"Re: Git - logo commercial use","fromName":"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason","fromEmail":"avarab@gmail.com","sentAt":"2019-02-14T12:36:55Z","receivedAt":"2019-02-14T12:37:01Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"avarab@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45301?v=4"},"body":"\nOn Wed, Feb 13 2019, Agnieszka Borcz wrote:\n\n> Dear Sir/Madam,\n>\n> My partner and I are in the initial stages of setting up an e-commerce business selling high-quality stickers of logos of popular software and libraries. We would mainly be marketing towards software developers, as there are many who enjoy placing stickers of their favorite tech on their laptops for display.\n>\n> We would love to be able to include your logo as part of our inventory but aren’t sure of the restrictions regarding its use for commercial purposes, so we would like to find out what your policy is regarding this and if this would be a possibility?\n>\n> We do not plan to modify or alter the logo in any way or claim that it is ours. To get a better idea of how we plan to use the logo, please see the following website, as this is very similar to what we plan to do: https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers.\n>\n> I see that others are already using your logo in a similar way on sites such as redbubble.com but wanted to double check your policy with you first.\n>\n> We look forward to your response.\n\nHi. This would fall under the project's trademark policy. See\nhttps://git-scm.com/about/trademark in particular section 2.5.\n\nI.e. as noted there please contact SFC at trademark@sfconservancy.org\nabout this.\n"},{"id":"369346","messageId":"CAP8UFD0hQcfTh57Ozhb9ydawAaXnC8PtXdD1ozBPFJo199xioQ@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"50496","inReplyTo":"C9D9CE87-105E-4716-BF43-1D64239DD492@gmail.com","subject":"Re: Git - logo commercial use","fromName":"Christian Couder","fromEmail":"christian.couder@gmail.com","sentAt":"2019-02-14T21:23:11Z","receivedAt":"2019-02-14T21:23:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"christian.couder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/208954?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nOn Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:50 PM Agnieszka Borcz wrote:\n\n> We would love to be able to include your logo as part of our inventory but aren’t sure of the restrictions regarding its use for commercial purposes, so we would like to find out what your policy is regarding this and if this would be a possibility?\n\nDid you check https://git-scm.com/downloads/logos ?\n\nIt contains the following:\n\n\"Git Logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons\nAttribution 3.0 Unported License.\"\n\nand:\n\n\"This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon\nyour work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the\noriginal creation. This is the most accommodating of the CC licenses\noffered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed\nmaterials.\"\n"}]}