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Guidelines for Sugar Logos & Trademarks

April 13, 2009 Purpose:

The Sugar Labs has created a number of trademarks and logos to identify the Sugar Labs community and individual Sugar Labs projects. In addition to the ‘Sugar’ trademark, Sugar Labs has introduced three trademarks and logos:

Sugar Labs,
Sugar Labs Partner,
Sugar Read.

This document outlines the policy and guidelines of Sugar Labs in regards to these trademarks and logos.

Our goals in establishing these guidelines are pretty simple:

The Sugar trademarks are a symbol of the quality and community support that people have come to associate with Sugar. To ensure that the Sugar trademarks continue to serve these functions, we need to keep some element of control over their use. Along these lines, we want to ensure that the use of our marks not likely to lead to confusion with other marks. By this we mean that people should be able to tell when something is from Sugar Labs. Also, use of our marks should not be in a disparaging manner because we prefer that our marks not be used to be rude about the Sugar technology, the Sugar Labs, or its Members.

We want to encourage our logos to be used in approved ways. So, for example, we want to make it as simple as legally possible for our Partners to use the ‘Sugar Labs Partner’ mark. If you want to use a Sugar Labs logo in a way not explicitly explained in these Guidelines, then ask us by sending an email to license@sugarlabs.org.

Proper Usage of "Sugar" trademark

1. You may not incorporate the ‘Sugar’ trademark into the name of your company or software product name. If you have a software product that works with Sugar, it is suggested you use terms such as ‘<product name> for Sugar’ or ‘<product name>, Sugar Edition’

2. It is acceptable to include the ‘Sugar’ trademark in the name of a publication, certification program, domain name or book. However you must ensure that a) the appropriate TM symbol is associated with the ‘Sugar’ reference and appropriate attribution as discussed below, b) ‘Sugar’ is not concatenated with another word, e.g. SugarBoard, and c) the usage does not imply or make the user believe that the publication, domain name or book is supported or authorized by Sugar Labs.

3. ‘Sugar’ should always be capitalized, except when used as part of the Eclipse logos.

Proper Usage of "Sugar Labs" Logo

Proper Usage of "Sugar Labs Partner" Logo

Proper Usage of "Sugar Ready" Logo

The ‘Eclip Foundation Member’ logo is to identify those organizations and individuals that are official members of the Eclipse Foundation, including 1) Strategic Members, 2) Enterprise Members, 3) Solutions (formerly Add-in Provider) Members, 4) Associate Members, and 5) Committer Members. Only official members of the Eclipse Foundation are authorized to use this logo. Proper Usage of ‘Built on Eclipse‘ Trademark and Logo

The ‘Built on Eclipse’ trademark is used to identify a product that includes the core Eclipse Platform, specifically the runtime, SWT, JFace, and Generic Workbench components. This type of product is able to run standalone with no prerequisites of other Eclipse components. Proper Usage of "Eclipse Ready" Trademark and Logo

General Usage of Logos

  1. Derivative works of the ‘EclipseCon’, ‘Eclipse Summit’, ‘Eclipse Foundation Member’, ‘Built on Eclipse’, ‘Eclipse Ready’ and projects logos are not allowed.

  2. The ‘Eclipse’ logos and production specification are available from www.eclipse.org. Replication of these logos must follow these specifications.

  3. Except for use by Eclipse projects on the eclipse.org website, use of the ‘Eclipse Incubation’ and the ‘Eclipse Proposals’ Trademarks and Logos is not permitted unless authorized in writing by the Eclipse Foundation.

Proper Notice and Attribution

The appropriate trademark symbol (i.e. TM) should appear at least with the first use of the Eclipse Foundation trademarks and all occurrence of the Eclipse logo.

When you use an Eclipse Foundation trademark or logo you should include a statement attributing the trademark to the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. For example, "‘Eclipse’, ‘Built on Eclipse’ and ‘Eclipse Ready’, ‘BIRT’, ‘Higgins’ are trademarks of Eclipse Foundation, Inc."