[theme-reviewers] WordPress Trademark

[Abhik Biswas]

Thanks Emil, thanks Chip.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Answered explicitly in the policy:
> http://wordpress.org/about/domains/
>
> "“WordPress” in sub-domains is fine, like wordpress.example.com, we’re
> just concerned about top-level domains."
>
>
> With respect to logo usage: trademark and copyright are not equivalent.
> The logo and its use are protected by trademark, and governed by WordPress
> foundation trademark policy:
> http://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/
>
> "
> Permission from the WordPress Foundation is required to use the WordPress
> or WordCamp name or logo as part of any project, product, service, domain
> or company name.
> "
>
>
> Fairly straghtforward.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Abhik Biswas <abhik at itsabhik.com> wrote:
>
>> Chip,
>>
>> 1. The word "WordPress" isn't allowed on Theme/Author/Credit domain? Is
>> it allowed on sub-folder names? Like, wordpressdomain.com or
>> domain.com/wordpress/.
>> 2. Can the Theme/Author/Credit link use WordPress logo (anywhere in the
>> page) since that licensed under GPL? (Everything on WordPress.org is GPL,
>> am I right?)
>> 3. Is it required to obtain permission from WordPress Foundation to use
>> WordPress logo in the theme website logo that offers premium versions of
>> their free themes?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thought so but wanted to confirm, got a few more tickets to close,
>>> someone uploaded about 10 of these.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's a show-stopper. As with licensing issues: there's simply no
>>>> point in continuing the review.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Tickets with theme/author domain that contain WordPress are subject to
>>>>> automatic rejection or do they still have to be reviewed?
>>>>>
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