Re: [mantisbt-help] Use of logo/imagery

[Neural Engine Corp.]

That makes total sense, Damien.

Thanks guys.


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Damien Regad <dre...@mantisbt.org> wrote:

> On 07.05.2014 22:36, Neural Engine Corp. wrote:
> > To clarify, our goal is actually just to put a link on our homepage that
> > points to our Mantis page, i.e.
> >
> > root    (official Mantis logo to go somewhere on this landing page,
> > which links to the page below)
> > ../root/mantis    (sure - we can put our logo on this page, as you
> > suggested)
>
> In that case, I believe your usage would be fully compliant with GPLv2,
> so there would be no issues there - although I'm not a lawyer ;-).
>
> However, and especially if this is going to be a public website, I would
> anyway recommend that you go through the effort of rebranding this somehow.
>
> The reason has nothing to do with GPL, but rather to avoid confusion to
> your users/customers between *your own instance* of Mantis, and
> *MantisBT itself* (i.e. the software). We freqently - sometimes several
> times per week - get issues reported on our own tracker at
> http://mantisbt.org/bugs that are in fact related to specific
> installations and not to the product itself. FYI, we usually deal with
> these by deleting the issue.
>
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