On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Stephan Hoyer <sho...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know the history of the NumPy logo, or who officially owns the
> rights to NumPy's branding at this point. In principle, that might be
> NumFOCUS, but the logo far predates NumFOCUS and NumFOCUS's fiscal
> sponsorship of NumPy. Looking at the Git history, it looks like David
> Cournapeau added it to NumPy's repo back in 2009:
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/c5b2f31aeafa32c705f87f5801a952
> e394063a3d
>

IIRC the NumPy name is trademarked, and Travis gave NumFOCUS the ownership
of that. That should also cover the logo I'd think.


>
>
> Just speaking for myself, I think this use for NumPy's logo and name is
> appropriate and within community norms. I don't think anyone would be
> confuse your project with NumPy or assume any sort of official endorsement.
>

I agree.

Ralf



>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:52 AM Daniel Smith <dgasm...@vt.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> I have a project which combines NumPy and a quantum chemistry program
>> (Psi4, psicode.org) for education and rapid prototyping. One of the
>> authors has proposed a new logo which is a tweaked form of the the NumPy
>> and Psi4 logos combined. I was curious if we were violating any NumPy
>> copyright or community taboos in either using the NumPy name or a modified
>> version of the NumPy logo. Any advice or direction would be most welcome.
>>
>> Current logo:
>> https://github.com/psi4/psi4numpy/blob/master/media/
>> psi4banner_numpy_interactive.png
>>
>> Proposed logo:
>> https://github.com/loriab/psi4numpy/blob/0866d0fb67f2c9629e2ba37bc4a091
>> e20695a09f/media/psi4numpybanner_eqn.png
>>
>> Project link:
>> https://github.com/psi4/psi4numpy
>>
>> ChemRxiv:
>> https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Psi4NumPy_An_Interactive_
>> Quantum_Chemistry_Programming_Environment_for_Reference_
>> Implementations_and_Rapid_Development/5746059
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Daniel
>>
>> —
>> Daniel G. A. Smith
>> Software Scientist
>> The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI <http://molssi.org/>)
>> @dgas_smith
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