Hello Geertjan You are on the right track by approaching Apache's trademarks groups. You would find the process to request for usage of Apache Kafka logo on non-software merchandise at https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/merchandise
-- Divij Vaidya On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 9:51 AM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Apache Kafka devs, > > I'm on the Apache NetBeans PMC but, aside from that, in my day job I work > at Azul (azul.com), a Java vendor. > > For upcoming Kafka conferences, we at Azul would like to make a hat as swag > that has both our Azul logo as well as Kafka's logo (with the message that > that is a good combination, faster Kafka throughput with Azul's JDKs etc). > > Of course, we don't want to create the impression that this swag that we're > planning to produce is in any way created by Kafka, i.e., this is really > Azul swag, and we'd be very careful about that and would like your input, > however, since we'd be using Kafka's logo or at least name, we'd like to > check with you (and are also checking with Apache Trademarks group) about > how you'd feel about this and any concerns you might have. > > Thanks, and if this is the wrong mailing list, please let me know. > > Geertjan >
