Trademark Policy

This policy is adapted directly from the Quarto and WordPress Foundation’s trademark policy for the Quarto project, WordPress and WordCamp names and logos. We admire the job that WordPress and Quarto has done building a thriving open source community while at the same time making possible a wide variety of WordPress related businesses. We hope that this policy will help us do the same for b2slab.

Goals

b2slab owns and oversees the trademark for the b2slab name and logo.

Permission from b2slab is required to use the b2slab name or logo as part of any project, product, service, domain name, or company name.

We will grant permission to use the b2slab name and logo for projects that meet the following criteria:

  • The primary purpose of your project is to promote the spread and improvement of the b2slab software.

  • Your project is non-commercial in nature (it can make money to cover its costs or contribute to non-profit entities, but it cannot be run as a for-profit project or business).

  • Your project neither promotes nor is associated with entities that currently fail to comply with the open source license under which b2slab is distributed.

If your project meets these criteria, you will be permitted to use the b2slab name and logo to promote your project in any way you see fit with these exceptions: (1) Please do not use b2slab as part of a domain name; and (2) We do not allow the use of the trademark in advertising, including AdSense/AdWords.

All other b2slab-related businesses or projects can use the b2slab name and logo to refer to and explain their services, but they cannot use them as part of a product, project, service, domain name, or company name and they cannot use them in any way that suggests an affiliation with or endorsement by the b2slab open source project.

Examples

A consulting company can describe its business as “123 Publishing Services, offering b2slab consulting for publishers,” but cannot call its business “The b2slab Consulting Company.” Similarly, a business related to b2slab extensions can describe itself as “XYZ Extensions, the world’s best b2slab extensions,” but cannot call itself “The b2slab Extension Portal.”

Similarly, it’s OK to use the b2slab logo as part of a page that describes your products or services, but it is not OK to use it as part of your company or product logo or branding itself. Under no circumstances is it permitted to use b2slab as part of a domain name or top-level domain name.

When in doubt about your use of the b2slab name or logo, please contact Posit at permissions@b2slab for clarification.