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# Trademark Policy
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## Introduction
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This is the TREK project's policy for the use of our trademarks. While TREK is
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available under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0), that
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license does not include a license to use our trademarks.
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This policy describes how you may use our trademarks. Our goal is to strike a
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balance between: 1) our need to ensure that our trademarks remain reliable
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indicators of the software we release; and 2) our community members' desire to
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be full participants in the TREK project.
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## Our trademarks
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This policy covers the name "TREK" as well as any associated logos, trade dress,
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goodwill, or designs (our "Marks").
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## In general
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Whenever you use our Marks, you must always do so in a way that does not mislead
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anyone about exactly who is the source of the software. For example, you cannot
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say you are distributing TREK when you're distributing a modified version of it,
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because people would think they would be getting the same software that they
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can get directly from us when they aren't. You also cannot use our Marks on
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your website in a way that suggests that your website is an official TREK
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website or that we endorse your website. But, if true, you can say you like
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TREK, that you participate in the TREK community, that you are providing an
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unmodified version of TREK, or that you wrote a guide describing how to use
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TREK.
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This fundamental requirement, that it is always clear to people what they are
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getting and from whom, is reflected throughout this policy. It should also
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serve as your guide if you are not sure about how you are using the Marks.
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In addition:
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* You may not use or register, in whole or in part, the Marks as part of your
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own trademark, service mark, domain name, company name, trade name, product
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name or service name.
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* Trademark law does not allow your use of names or trademarks that are too
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similar to ours. You therefore may not use an obvious variation of any of our
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Marks or any phonetic equivalent, foreign language equivalent, takeoff, or
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abbreviation for a similar or compatible product or service.
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* You agree that you will not acquire any rights in the Marks and that any
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goodwill generated by your use of the Marks and participation in our
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community inures solely to our benefit.
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## Distribution of unmodified source code or unmodified executable code we have compiled
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When you redistribute an unmodified copy of TREK, you are not changing the
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quality or nature of it. Therefore, you may retain the Marks we have placed on
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the software to identify your redistribution. This kind of use only applies if
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you are redistributing an official TREK distribution that has not been changed
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in any way.
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## Distribution of executable code that you have compiled, or modified code
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You may use the word mark "TREK", but not any TREK logos, to truthfully
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describe the origin of the software that you are providing, that is, that the
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code you are distributing is a modification of TREK. You may say, for example,
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that "this software is derived from the source code for TREK."
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Of course, you can place your own trademarks or logos on versions of the
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software to which you have made substantive modifications, because by modifying
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the software, you have become the origin of that exact version. In that case,
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you should not use our Marks.
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However, you may use our Marks for the distribution of code (source or
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executable) on the condition that any executable is built from an official TREK
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source code release and that any modifications are limited to switching on or
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off features already included in the software, translations into other
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languages, and incorporating minor bug-fix patches. Use of our Marks on any
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further modification is not permitted.
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## Mobile wrappers, hosted instances, and forks
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The following clarifications apply specifically to common ways TREK is
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redistributed:
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* **Self-hosted instances of unmodified TREK.** You may refer to your instance
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as "a TREK instance" or "running TREK." You may not name the service itself
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in a way that suggests it is the official TREK ("TREK Cloud," "TREK
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Official," etc.).
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* **Mobile wrappers (WebView shells, Capacitor apps, native apps) pointing at
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TREK.** You may describe your app as "a mobile client for TREK" or "for use
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with TREK." You may not publish it on app stores under the name "TREK" or a
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confusingly similar name, and you may not use the TREK logo as the app icon
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unless your wrapper distributes only an unmodified, official TREK instance
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and you have obtained permission.
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* **Forks of the TREK source code.** Forks that diverge from upstream must use
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a different name. You may state that your fork is "based on TREK" or "a fork
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of TREK," but the project name itself must be your own.
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## Statements about your software's relation to TREK
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You may use the word mark, but not TREK logos, to truthfully describe the
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relationship between your software and ours. The word mark "TREK" should be
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used after a verb or preposition that describes the relationship between your
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software and ours. So you may say, for example, "Bob's app for TREK" but may
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not say "Bob's TREK app." Some other examples that may work for you are:
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* [Your software] uses TREK
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* [Your software] is powered by TREK
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* [Your software] runs on TREK
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* [Your software] for use with TREK
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* [Your software] for TREK
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## Questions and permission requests
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If you are not sure whether your intended use of the Marks is permitted under
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this policy, or if you would like to request explicit permission for a use that
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is not covered, please open an issue on the TREK GitHub repository or contact
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the maintainers directly.
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---
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These guidelines are based on the
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[Model Trademark Guidelines](http://www.modeltrademarkguidelines.org), used
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under a
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[Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US). |