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<title>Trademark licensing</title>
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<h1>Trademark licensing</h1>
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One of the functions that the GNOME Foundation provides is to
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act as the legal owner for such GNOME project assets as the
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GNOME name and the GNOME foot. We must protect these trademarks in
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order to keep them. Therefore, we have some guidelines for their
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use and a standard agreement for user groups. These cover many
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common situations; if you need permission to use the GNOME
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trademarks in other ways or have other questions, please
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contact <a href="mailto:licensing@gnome.org">licensing@gnome.org</a>.
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The GNOME trademarks are:
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<li>The word GNOME™</li>
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<li>The GNOME foot logo: <img src="http://www.gnome.org/img/logo/text-64" alt="GNOME Foot Logo"/></li>
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<h2>Third-party usage guidelines</h2>
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Under the law, “fair use” of trademarks is allowed (for example,
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trademarks typically may be used without permission in magazine
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and book reviews). The <a href="/licensing/guidelines/">GNOME
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Foundation trademark usage guidelines for third parties</a>
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describe what is appropriate fair use of the GNOME trademarks.
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<h2>User group license agreement</h2>
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User groups are a very important part of the GNOME
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community. User groups have a need to make use of the GNOME
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trademarks in such ways as creating and distributing marketing
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materials or creating web sites. (The usage of the term user
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group here is broad: the canonical example would be a group of
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people using and promoting GNOME in a specific locality, but it
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could also be a group of developers working on an open source
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GNOME application or many similar non-commerical uses.)
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By agreeing to the <a href="/licensing/usergroup/">GNOME user
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group license agreement</a> a user group obtains permission to
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use the GNOME trademarks under certain conditions.
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