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We need to write this agreement due to legal reasons. Please don't feel like this policy is intended to keep you out! Our goal is to make Sugar a recognized name in learning, making clear trademark usage arrangements with partners and other FOSS projects. Please come talk with us if you have any questions whatsoever.
We need to write this agreement due to legal reasons. Please don't feel like this policy is intended to keep you out! Our goal is to make Sugar a recognized name in learning, making clear trademark usage arrangements with partners and other FOSS projects. Please come talk with us if you have any questions whatsoever.
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The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the identity, provenance, and free and open-source nature of Sugar Labs<sup>®</sup> remain clear '''to the public. This is in keeping with''' our objective to spread the use of the Sugar Learning Platform while protecting our trademarks. It is our intention to be liberal and responsive in the enforcement of our trademarks: '''we want our Marks to be widely used to represent our learning mission to the public, but we also need to ensure clarity regarding the relationship between Sugar Labs and the individual or organization using our Marks in order to both protect Sugar Labs and the public.''' As part of our marketing effort to make Sugar better known, we have developed a label program with the objective of simplifying and streamlining permission to use Sugar Labs marks by projects and businesses. '''We encourage you to contact us at trademark at sugarlabs.org if you have any questions about this policy or the label program.''' Throughout this document, the word "Marks" refers to the Sugar Labs name and logo, individually or together. Note that Section 5 provides guidelines for other marks used by Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, which is the holder of the [http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:qq173k.3.1 registered mark].
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the identity, provenance, and free and open-source nature of Sugar Labs<sup>®</sup> remain clear '''to the public. This is in keeping with''' our objective to spread the use of the Sugar Learning Platform while protecting our trademarks. It is our intention to be liberal and responsive in the enforcement of our trademarks: '''we want our Marks to be widely used to represent our learning mission to the public, but we also need to ensure clarity regarding the relationship between Sugar Labs and the individual or organization using our Marks in order to both protect Sugar Labs and the public.''' As part of our marketing effort to make Sugar better known, we have developed a label program with the objective of simplifying and streamlining permission to use Sugar Labs marks by projects and businesses. '''We encourage you to contact us at trademark at sugarlabs.org if you have any questions about this policy or the label program.''' Throughout this document, the word "Marks" refers to the Sugar Labs name and logo, individually or together. Note that Section 5 provides guidelines for other marks used by Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, which is the holder of the [http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:qq173k.3.1 registered mark].