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Trademark policy

Placeholder — this page is not the policy

The OpenRegs trademark policy is being drafted in the core repository together with the brand assets, and it is not finished. Nothing on this page is authoritative, nothing on it grants permission, and nothing on it should be quoted or relied on. When the policy lands, this page is replaced by it.

What the policy will cover

  • The name “OpenRegs”, the logo, and the wordmark.
  • Nominative use — describing software that uses, extends or integrates with OpenRegs.
  • Naming of derivatives, forks and redistributions, including modified corpora.
  • Use in a company, product, domain or event name.
  • How to ask for permission, and how permission is withdrawn.

In the meantime

An open-source licence grants rights in code and data, not in a name: Apache-2.0 explicitly does not grant trademark permission, and CC BY 4.0 covers the corpus rather than the mark. Until the policy is published, assume the usual position — use the name to refer accurately to the project, do not use it to imply endorsement, and ask through the GitHub organisation if you need more than that.