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It's open-source and mostly or entirely licensed under the GPLv3, so I don't think HP would've needed to license it.
by wging 4y ago
It's open-source and mostly or entirely licensed under the GPLv3, so I don't think HP would've needed to license it.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoThey stuck the Pop!_OS logo right up by the HP logo at the top of the page; I would be astonished if they didn't have some sort of legal agreement to use the trademark.
- p1necone 4y agoIs it common to have a proprietary/trademarked logo for an otherwise entirely open source project? That seems a little silly to me but I'm not really aware of what is standard.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoI'm pretty sure it's decently common; Red Hat certainly does it, Ubuntu is nice and keeps a wiki page of what derivatives need to change and when (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeDistroHowto#Trademarks https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeDistroHowto#Trademarks), opensuse has https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines#Distributing_openSUSE_With_Modifications https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines#Distri... to discuss how much you can use their trademarks, and even Debian has a trademark policy - https://www.debian.org/trademark https://www.debian.org/trademark - although it's about as permissive as you could hope for IMO.
- p1necone 4y agoI guess you would have to trademark your logo to stop people from slapping it on things that don't even use the product. It's nice to explicitly spell out that you won't actually go after people who aren't doing anything silly.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoI dunno, I can see value in saying "If it says ThisDistroName then it is actually this specific build of these components from these people, and anyone else can use the code but they have to call their version something else so there's no confusion." If that wasn't how it worked, I could just make "Ubuntu X" or something that used a lot of Ubuntu but mixed in unstable changes and adware and whatever else I wanted and ride off the Ubuntu name.
- nicoburns 4y agoYes, Firefox does this for example. To stop other people building their own products (which could be malicious or just crap) and calling them Firefox. You can do what you like with the Firefox source code, but you can't call it Firefox unless you abide by certain restrictions.
- piperswe 4y agoLinux is a trademark of the Linux Foundation (see https://www.linuxfoundation.org/the-linux-mark/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/the-linux-mark/), and as mentioned by others Firefox is a trademark of Mozilla. It's fairly common, and used to ensure a fork doesn't pop up and claim to be the original product.