IP clearance is for anything that was developed outside of the foundation, even if it was developed by people with ICLAs on file.
I am looking for Shane's guidance on this. On 29 October 2012 13:21, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > > It's been three days and it looks like we have unanimous consensus. > > > > The next steps are to do IP clearence. I am happy to work with someone > from > > Citrix on this. We'll need to establish what rights Citrix holds, and > then > > transfer these to the ASF. At that point, we can import the source files, > > and start using it. > > You might not need IP clearance, since Sony is a commiter on the > project (and has an ICLA on file). I think the question isn't the > provenance of the logo design, it's to determine if there are any > conflicting marks already established by others. > > > As for use of the mascot on t-shirts, etc, that is largely up to the > > PMC's discretion. When the time comes, it wouldn't hurt to confirm things > > with Shane (our VP of Brand Management) but I have seen him say before > that > > each project is allowed to decide how their own marks are used. > > > > On 29 October 2012 12:27, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012, at 05:40 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Can we put high resolution mascot svg, png etc. somewhere on > >> > incubator.apache.org/cloudstack so people we can download and use > them > >> > (under CC or suitable license) for their t-shirts, keynotes and > whatnot. > >> > >> If we decide to adopt the monkey (which is looking likely) and we find > >> that it doesn't have any trademark issues that would prevent our using > >> it, then I'll ask Sonny to provide all the original artwork so we can > >> use it. > >> > >> However - IIRC Apache has rules around using project trademarks for > >> t-shirts, and such. You might want to look at those before doing > >> t-shirts, etc. > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> Joe > >> -- > >> Joe Brockmeier > >> j...@zonker.net > >> Twitter: @jzb > >> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > NS > -- NS
