Quick update about the trademark references. The official guidance from the Linux Foundation is to use "Jenkins is a registered trademark of LF Charities Inc." attribution. They needed a 501(c)(3) legal entity to hold the trademark due to some legal obstacles the LF hit during the trademark transition.
The guidelines will be updated accordingly On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 2:38:21 PM UTC+1 Oleg Nenashev wrote: > Dear all, > > Just to follow-up on the old topic, the Jenkins trademark > <https://trademarks.justia.com/854/47/jenkins-85447465.html> has been > recently transferred to LF Charities Inc. which is a subsidiary of the > Linux Foundation. This concludes the long process of Jenkins assets > transition from the Software in Public Interest (SPI) to the Linux > Foundation. This started when we voted to join the Continuous delivery > Foundation in 2018, and I am excited to see it finally completed. > > What changes? > > - *Trademark Usage*. The Linux Foundation Trademark usage policy is > now required for the project. We won't be approving new trademark usage > requests violating this policy. > https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/4030 updates the > trademark documentation on the website. I suggest reviewing and approving > it at today's governance meeting > - *Trademark Attribution*. The Jenkins trademark attribution changes, > hence all users are expected to gradually replace attribution to "Jenkins® > is a registered trademark of the Linux Foundation" in the resources > (websites, marketing materials, etc., etc.). There is no strict deadline > for this update > - *Reimbursements*. We still have some assets controlled by SPI, most > notably the old treasury which still has some money there. If someone > needs > to request reimbursements from the project, please follow the SPI > Reimbursement Process > <https://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/reimbursement-form/> ann CC the > Jenkins Governance Board in the requests. Once we use all SPI money, we > will switch to the LFX process documented in JEP-15 > <https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/tree/master/jep/15>. > > More changes to come. > > Best regards, > Oleg Nenashev > Jenkins Governance Board > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/8ed446dc-6b97-49e1-9054-f8e09297b42fn%40googlegroups.com.
