Hi Matthias, Thank you for the explanation. I definitely won't be using the name Jupyter in my product's name. Nor will I use their logo or any recreation of it.
Best, Brendan Smith On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 10:25:18 PM UTC-4, Matthias Bussonnier wrote: > > Thanks for the question, > > I am not a lawyer either and this is my personal interpretation of > the license, but more or less you can do almost whatever you want > with/to the code, you just need to make sure that attribution is > correct. For example this: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-made-this > is not allowed. > > Most of the governance and legal mentions are for the "name" Jupyter > and anything associated with the "brand". It roughly tell you that you > are allowed to say your product uses or is based on Jupyter, but you > cannot use a name or logos in a way that could have a user be confused > about whether or not your product is part of, or associated with > Jupyter. You also can't do modifications of the logo without > authorisations. Example "EduJupyter" would probably violate trademark. > If your site is predominantly blue, you are technically not allowed to > make a blue variation of the Jupyter Logo with your color. > > As a side note, defending the trademark is mandatory or the Jupyter > Project could lose it, if you ever ask "can I do X", and you get "no", > or we come to you and tell you you can't do Y, it might not be because > we don't like what you did, but because we are legally obliged if we > want to keep the trademark. > -- > Matthias > > On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 18:38, William Stein <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:18 AM Matthew Seal <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > Hi Brendan, > > > It's definitely possible to build products on top of Jupyter > Notebooks. There's many companies doing this already in a number of domains > and offerings. > > > > I founded one of those companies (see [1]), and I'm happy to video > > chat with you about my experiences. Of course, I am not a lawyer and > > do not speak for the Jupyter project, but it's possible my experience > > could be helpful. Feel free to contact me. > > > > -- William ([email protected] <javascript:>) > > > > [1] https://cocalc.com/doc/jupyter-notebook.html > > > > > > >The governance is more about managing the open source code and > engagements that promote Jupyter. For building a commercial product you > usually don't need to worry about the project internal governance. > > > > > > Most (perhaps all?) software under Jupyter is licensed with 3-clause > BSD license which gives open permission to reuse the code without needing > to coordinate with Jupyter teams. If you distribute code to people you have > to include the license as described in the link. Hosting a webserver > doesn't require this license sharing, just if you send someone source code > from the open source repositories. > > > > > > If you contribute code that can be shared we're always happy to take > pull requests to get that code into the open source repositories as well so > you and others can equally benefit. > > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > Matt > > > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:11 AM Brendan Smith <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I would like to build a commercial educational product using Jupyter > Notebooks. Is this possible? > > >> > > >> I have read Jupyter's governance, but am struggling to fully > disentangle the legal jargon. > > >> > > >> Thank you for your time, > > >> Best, > > >> Brendan Smith > > >> > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Project Jupyter" group. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/2c4b064f-9c69-42e6-9a51-eca24872ad24%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Project Jupyter" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAJF6vz41iGL8Z%3DsWwMua77NStf%3DTPDjQkETu65%2BTcth7caAGrw%40mail.gmail.com. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > William (http://wstein.org) > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Project Jupyter" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CACLE5GB34DZsmKEZvGtGyiZSoEx%3DF05HAM8uKU%3DeXOco-M41KQ%40mail.gmail.com. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. 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