Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Marco Dalla Stella
Il 26 marzo 2012 16:33, Marco Dalla Stella m.dallaste...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi, We would like to use the Clojure logo for our new Italian Clojure User Group. Thank you all for your kind answer. We are not going to use any logo until Rich will give us his permission. It will be great if

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Gagnon
First of all, one only has to police unauthorized use of the trademark. One can authorize its use under particular circumstances, and then those uses don't need to be policed to avoid losing the trademark. That's at the heart of trademark law. A trademark is a form of Proof of origin. If

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Stuart Sierra
Please let's not get into a discussion of Copyright or Trademark law. As far as I know the Clojure logo is not currently trademarked. Rich's request is that people not use the logo for purposes other than to represent the Clojure language. -S -- You received this message because you are

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Gagnon
As far as I know the Clojure logo is not currently trademarked. You can have a trademark without registering anything (registration is somewhere between $200 and $300 in the US, I forgot the exact amount), it's just harder to demonstrate without a registration than copyright. -- You received

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Cedric Greevey
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Daniel Gagnon redalas...@gmail.com wrote: First of all, one only has to police unauthorized use of the trademark. One can authorize its use under particular circumstances, and then those uses don't need to be policed to avoid losing the trademark. That's at

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Cedric Greevey
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Stuart Sierra the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com wrote: Rich's request is that people not use the logo for purposes other than to represent the Clojure language. How does he define represent the Clojure language? Just that its use, in a particular instance, is to refer

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Donald Lindsay
Considering what I've seen of other lisp logos, I'd 'polly want to see a preview. It's Lisp, the 3 -rlt entiti cassius ~/dev/null On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Dimitrios wrote: On 28/03/12 13:12, Stuart Sierra wrote: Rich Hickey holds the copyright on the Clojure logo design, and it's not

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-29 Thread Chip Collier
On 3/29/12 12:33 AM, Marco Dalla Stella wrote: Il 26 marzo 2012 16:33, Marco Dalla Stella m.dallaste...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi, We would like to use the Clojure logo for our new Italian Clojure User Group. Thank you all for your kind answer. We are not going to use any logo until Rich

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-28 Thread Stuart Sierra
Rich Hickey holds the copyright on the Clojure logo design, and it's not under an open-source license. He has asked that the logo not be used to refer to anything except the language itself. -S On Monday, March 26, 2012 10:33:39 AM UTC-4, Marco Dalla Stella wrote: Hi, We would like to

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-28 Thread Dimitrios
On 28/03/12 13:12, Stuart Sierra wrote: Rich Hickey holds the copyright on the Clojure logo design, and it's not under an open-source license. He has asked that the logo not be used to refer to anything except the language itself. Does that mean it can be used freely by anyone

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-28 Thread Chip Collier
I was also intending on using the logo in such a way to communicate that a site I'm building is powered by clojure or something to that effect with a link to clojure.org. Is that frowned upon? Chip On 3/28/12 5:37 AM, Dimitrios wrote: On 28/03/12 13:12, Stuart Sierra wrote: Rich Hickey holds

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Gagnon
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Chip Collier pho...@gmail.com wrote: I was also intending on using the logo in such a way to communicate that a site I'm building is powered by clojure or something to that effect with a link to clojure.org. Is that frowned upon? Chip Unfortunately,

Re: Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-28 Thread Cedric Greevey
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Gagnon redalas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Chip Collier pho...@gmail.com wrote: I was also intending on using the logo in such a way to communicate that a site I'm building is powered by clojure or something to that effect with

Using the Clojure Logo

2012-03-26 Thread Marco Dalla Stella
Hi, We would like to use the Clojure logo for our new Italian Clojure User Group. Can we have the permission to use a modified version like the one attached? If not, we will use the standard Clojure logo (if permitted). TIA, -- Marco Dalla Stella web: http://thediracsea.org twitter: