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[[trademarks]]
== Branding

This section defines how {forgeName} Projects
must use and display all Eclipse Foundation trademarks as well as how
they showcase their project's website within the community and
ecosystem. The requirements described here are a complement to the
{trademarkGuidelinesUrl}[Guidelines for Eclipse Logos & Trademarks], 
targeting {forgeName} open source project
leads and committers specifically.

These requirements are meant to promote and improve the image of all
projects that are part of the {forgeName} community, as well as to show that
all {forgeName} Projects are part of our community of developers, adopters
and users that we believe is an important factor in our mutual success.
While every project manages their own development within the broader
{edpUrl}[Eclipse
Development Process], a consistent public branding and web presence that
ties all of our projects together benefits all of us.

All projects must conform to these branding requirements before engaging
in any Release or Graduation Review.

[[trademarks-background]]
=== Naming, Branding, and Trademarks

Naming and branding are important issues for project teams to consider:
both for the project's future success as well as to help support and
share the good values from the {forgeName} brand itself. Not only can a
memorable name help new users and contributors find a project, having a
distinctive name makes the trademark much stronger, and ensures that
third parties will respect it.

To ensure that future trademarks conflicts don't arise, it is necessary
to show other parties that Eclipse Foundation trademarks were chosen in
good faith and with appropriate research. The Eclipse Foundation has
no business infringing on
pre-existing trademarks for the software products or services from other
organizations, whether they are Member organizations or not.

All {forgeName} projects and corresponding software products are trademarks
of the Eclipse Foundation. As a legal entity, the Eclipse Foundation
owns all {forgeName} project and corresponding product trademarks on behalf
of the the {forgeName} community. This prevents companies from misusing or
misrepresenting their products as being the projects. The EMO will
initiate a trademark review as part of the project creation or renaming
process. Existing project name trademarks must be transferred to the
Eclipse Foundation (please see the
{trademarkTransferUrl}[Trademark Transfer Agreement]).

Who needs these requirements?

* Project teams that want to name or rename a software product;
* Project teams that want to rename their project; and
* Anyone submitting a new project proposal

All project and product names must be vetted and approved by the EMO.

==== Registered Trademarks

Project teams may request legal trademark registration for their project
or product name. Since trademark registration requires a non-trivial
investment in time and money, project teams must work with their PMC and
the EMO to determine whether not trademark registration is necessary,
determine in which countries the trademark must be registered, and how
that registration will impact the project (e.g. adding registration
marks on the website and in products).

[[trademarks-background-orgs]]
==== Other Organization’s Trademarks

Project teams must ensure that products names that include other
organizations’ trademarks in names must be conform to those
organizations’ trademark usage guidelines. For example, "{forgeName} Foo
Perl" is not appropriate, since it improperly uses the trademark "Perl"
(which is a trademark of The Perl Foundation); a better project name
would be "{forgeName} Foo for Perl".

[[trademarks-background-name]]
==== Choosing a Name

Naming and branding are challenging issues that generally require some
real investment in time and energy. The best project names are
distinctive and memorable.

Project teams should start the process of securing the trademark for a
name as early as is practical. This is required to ensure the EMO has 
sufficient time to review and approve the name.

A project team should start this process:

* When they first begin preparing a project proposal;
* As soon as their project wants to name a new software product; or
* Before initiating a Restructuring Review to change a project name

NOTE: Renaming projects (i.e. after a project has been created
and provisioned) requires significant work on the part of the
infrastructure team, and can be disruptive and confusing for consumers.
Project teams should start the process as early as possible once they
have a candidate name.

[[trademarks-project]]
=== Project Names

A project, as defined by the Eclipse Development Process, is the main
operational unit; all open source software development at {forgeName}
occurs within the context of a project. The
Eclipse Foundation holds the trademark for all {forgeName} Projects.

All project names must be approved by the Eclipse Management
Organization (EMO) either before a project is created or before an
existing project is renamed.

[[trademarks-project-formal]]
==== Formal Name

The primary branding for any project name is fully-qualified formal name
which includes the "{forgeName}" prefix (e.g. "{forgeName} Woolsey Intellectual
Property Tools" or "{forgeName} Woolsey Framework"). This ensures that
the project is associated with the Eclipse Foundation in the community,
ecosystem, and the minds of users and adopters. However, {forgeName}
Projects are oftentimes known by many names: it is common for a project
to have both a formal and a nickname or commonly-used acronym.

The formal name may include a brand name and/or a descriptive name.

[[trademarks-project-brand]]
==== Brand Names

Project teams should strongly consider choosing a brand name. "Woolsey",
"Apogy", and "Whiskers" are examples of brand names that are distinctive
and memorable; they make the project easier to talk and write about than
a wordier descriptive name. These names are not descriptive and so don’t
stand well on their own; combining a brand name with a descriptive name
(e.g. "{forgeName} Woolsey Intellectual Property Tools") can help in this
regard.

[[trademarks-project-descriptive]]
==== Descriptive Names

Projects are encouraged to use a descriptive name. Descriptive names
provide context that can help a casual viewer appreciate the purpose of
the project in way that is difficult or impossible to convey with a
brand name "Graphical Modeling Framework", "Trust Framework" or "Component 
Assembly Tools" are examples of descriptive names..

The best names do not include the word "Project", and are—in formal
contexts—prepended by "{forgeName}". The project name should still work with
or without the prefix. For example, "Graphical Modeling Framework" and
"{forgeName} Graphical Modeling Framework" are equally understandable.

Descriptive names may optionally include the words "Framework",
"Platform", or "Tools" if the project has a specific emphasis on
extensible frameworks, a platform, or obvious development tooling
technology. {forgeName} projects always provide both but may be tailored
more toward one or the other. When choosing to use these words, the team
should consider that "Framework", "Platform", and "Tools" mean different
things to different people and may be becoming overused.

[[trademarks-project-nick]]
==== Nicknames

A project may have a nickname or common name that is a shorter form of
the formal name (and will likely be the same as the brand name). The
"{forgeName} Woolsey Intellectual Property Tools" project may be referred to
as "{forgeName} Woosley" or simply "Woolsey". An acronym may be used as a
nickname (e.g. "ECF" and "GMF").

[[trademarks-project-acronym]]
==== Acronyms For Long Names

Most descriptive names are sufficiently long that it can be convenient
to abbreviate them in some way. 

NOTE: Acronyms often become brand names.

[[trademarks-project-existing]]
==== Existing Software Product Names

To avoid confusion between {forgeName} Projects and commercial products,
{forgeName} projects may not be named after commercial products and vice
versa. To ensure that users understand the source of software
products—i.e. from {aForgeName} project, or from a third party
vendor—the brand for {aForgeName} project must not include or be directly
reminiscent of a commercial product.

[[trademarks-project-short]]
==== Short Names and Ids

Projects require a short name; this name is used to as an ID for the
project in various parts of Eclipse Foundation infrastructure and should
be as reflective of the formal name as possible.  It may, for example,
be a lowercase rendering of the brand name, or an acronym of a
descriptive name.

The short name may contain lowercase alphanumeric characters, dashes,
and underlines. The short name may not contain periods (.). Short names
are used in some project URLs, download directories, <<ip-ipzilla,IPZilla>>,
and in other parts of the supported infrastructure.

The short name is joined with the short name of the parent project(s) to
form a qualified identifier for the project that is used as a key on
many of the webpages and services generated and/or maintained for the
project by the Eclipse Foundation. e.g. the "{forgeName} Woolsey" project
has a short name of "woolsey"; its qualified name is
"technology.dash.woolsey", indicating that it is a subproject of the
{aForgeName} _Dash_ Project which is itself a subproject of the {forgeName}
_Technology_ Top Level Project.

Project names should always be referred to in a consistent casing, and
used as an adjective (never as a noun or verb) like any trademark should
be used (e.g. "Download {forgeName} Woolsey software here", using the
Woolsey name as an adjective for software).

[[trademarks-project-product]]
==== Product Names

A product is a specific, downloadable software product that users or
consumers might want to use in some way. Most projects release a product
with the same name (e.g. the {forgeName} Woolsey project releases a software
product called "{forgeName} Woolsey") or some variation of the project name
(e.g. "{forgeName} Woolsey SDK").

NOTE: Most open source projects produce products that share the project name.
There are, however, numerous examples of projects that produce
additional products. The Eclipse CDO project, for example, has a product
named "Dawn"; and the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework project has a
product named "Zest".

Product names should also be prefixed with "{forgeName}" when used in any
formal context (e.g. _{forgeName} Widgets_).

Project teams should work with their PMC to determine whether or not to
pursue assertion of ownership of the trademark for product names.
Project teams should work with the Eclipse Management Organization (EMO)
to assert ownership of product trademarks.

[[trademarks-project-description]]
==== Project Descriptions

All {forgeName} projects require a description. The project description must
include a brief sentence or short paragraph (no bullets) that explains
the primary function of the software deliverables provided. For example:

____
The Eclipse pass:[C/C++] Development Tooling(TM)
(CDT) project provides a fully functional C and pass:[C++] Integrated 
Development Environment based on the Eclipse Platform.
____

The complete description can certainly include much more information,
but starting with a short paragraph is a great service for new readers
to the project’s website, and is important for the Eclipse Foundation to
maintain an overall list of project trademarks for software products.
While this trademark description style may sometimes seem clumsy in
technical documentation, it is a critical way that the Eclipse
Foundation enforces trademarks.

Project teams may seek guidance from the PMC and EMO to ensure that the
text is a proper trademark goods description; i.e. one that describes
the specific functionality of the software available for download and
use.

[[trademarks-project-logo]]
==== Logos And Graphics

Logos are important to recognize as trademarks as well. For a project's
official logo (if it has one, and especially if it uses the Eclipse
globe in any way), the designer must ensure that it includes a small
trademark (™)  or registered trademark (®) symbol (as appropriate) in
the graphic or immediately adjacent to it.

Projects may may request to use the Eclipse Logo within their project
logo, or otherwise create a derivative of the Eclipse Logo. However,
they must contact the EMO to request the Board's permission to do so.

[[trademarks-website]]
=== Project Websites

The official project website is the primary means of learning about the
project and getting involved: people who are interested in contributing
to the project come here to learn about technical details, and to
observe the project's development process.

{forgeName} projects must host all project content on an Eclipse Foundation
provided domain,especially the official/primary website for project-related information,
communications, access to source code, and downloads. This ensures both
that the Eclipse Foundation's Webmaster team can maintain the services, and informs
consumers that the content comes from {aForgeName} Project, and not a
third party. This further ensures that the project remains independent
of any specific vendor or single individual.

All primary links to the project (including, for example, the project’s
contribution guide) must point directly to the official website, and not
to external sites or domains.

[[trademarks-website-name]]
==== Name References

The first reference to a project or product on
every web page—especially in page titles or headers—must use the formal
name and must include the relevant trademark (™) or registered trademark
(®) symbol (e.g. "{forgeName} Woolsey Intellectual Property Tools™"). If the
webpage features an otherwise prominent reference to the project or
product (e.g. in a callout), that reference should also use the formal
name. Other references may use  the nickname or acronym (e.g. "{forgeName}
Woolsey" or "Woolsey") as appropriate.

[[trademarks-website-footer]]
==== Footers

All project web pages must include a footer that prominently displays an
approved Eclipse Logo, important links back to key pages, and a
copyright notice.

Approved Eclipse logos are available on the
https://www.eclipse.org/artwork[Eclipse Logos and Artwork] page.

The following minimal set of links must be included on the footer of all
pages in the official project website:

* Main Eclipse Foundation website (http://www.eclipse.org);
* Privacy policy (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/privacy.php);
* Website terms of use (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/termsofuse.php);
* Copyright agent (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/copyright.php); and
* Legal (http://www.eclipse.org/legal).

NOTE: An appropriate footer is included automatically by the default website
infrastructure and the PMI.

[[trademarks-metadata]]
=== Project Metadata

All Projects must keep their metadata updated regularly in the central
<<pmi, Project Management Infrastructure>> (PMI). Projects must ensure that all
metadata is kept up-to-date in the PMI tool to ensure that
other infrastructure tools and processes can make connections to and
disseminate information for  the project.

The project description, scope, and other free-form text fields in the
PMI must conform to the project naming guidelines. 

NOTE: The PMI supports teasers or summaries for many fields; ensure that 
these teasers also conform to the guidelines.

[[trademarks-code]]
=== Code Namespaces

Where applicable and supported by the programming languages and style
used by the project, code namespaces must include the project’s short
name.

In Java, for example, package names must start with +{namespace}+ and use
their short name in the third-segment  (i.e. follow the pattern
+{namespace}.<short-name>.<component>+), e.g. +{namespace}.foo.core+,
+{namespace}.foo.ui+, and +{namespace}.foo.connector+. Component
names are left to the discretion of the project team.

The project team must petition the Planning Council via their PMC to
request exceptions.

[[trademarks-external]]
=== Third-Party Use of Trademarks

The use of Eclipse Foundation trademarks outside of the immediate scope of the
open source project, including the use of project names, is subject to the terms
of the {trademarkGuidelinesUrl}[Guidelines for Eclipse Logos & Trademarks].
This includes third-party websites, books, publications, conferences, events, and
more.

[[trademarks-external-events]]
==== Conferences and Events

Use of the terms "Eclipse", "EclipseCon", and "Eclipse Day"
are reserved for exclusive use by events authorized by the Eclipse Foundation. 

Other Eclipse Foundation trademarks (e.g. project names) may be used in events, 
but must be approved by the EMO subject to the following considerations:

* The name of the event must conform to the terms laid out in the Guidelines for 
Eclipse Logos & Trademarks;
* The event must include sessions that focus on content provided by the 
corresponding open source projects;
* Representatives from corresponding {forgeName} open source projects (e.g.
committers, project leads, PMC members) must be directly involved in the event; and
* Websites, printed materials, and other content associated with the event
must provide pointers/links to the project website and trademark attribution.

The trademark should not generally be concatenated with any other words. 
Exceptions for established conventions (e.g. *WoolseyCon*) may be granted
on a case-by-case basis.

Trademark attribution must indicate that the trademarks are used with the permission
of the Eclipse Foundation (e.g. "Woolsey is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation, 
Inc. and is used with permission.").

NOTE: Permission is *not required* to present a talk on {aForgeName} project.

[[trademark-external-community]]
==== Community Portals

Community portals are generally operated at "arms length" from the
{forgeName} open source project. The community portal may help users 
find information about what the project software does and how to get it,
or provide a means for the community to contribute to related side projects
that are not part of the {forgeName} open source project.

The community portal is not a replacement for a developer portal which takes
form in the official project website as described by this document.

A community portal is operated with these considerations:

* The name of the community portal must conform to the terms laid out in 
the Guidelines for Eclipse Logos & Trademarks;
* The first and most prominent reference to the {forgeName} open source
project or corresponding product name on every web page must use the formal name
and must include the relevant trademark or registered trademark symbol
(subsequent references may use  the nickname or acronym as appropriate);
* All references to {forgeName} open source project names must be prefixed with
"{forgeName}";
* The website must include trademark attributions for all Eclipse
Foundation trademarks used on the site; and
* Contributors must be directed to the official project website for information
regarding contribution or related development activities.

Community portals must include a prominent text paragraph or sidebar
that points to the official project website, so that users interested in
contributing or otherwise participating in the open source project know
where to go.

NOTE: Naming exceptions may be granted for names that follow established
conventions (e.g. *Woolsey(TM) Labs*). Contact the EMO to request an
exception.

[[trademarks-domains]]
==== Domains

Websites on external domains that use a project name trademark (e.g. 
`www.mosquitto.com`) that point to servers that are not hosted by 
the Eclipse Foundation, may be employed as community portals.
External domains may be appropriate for some forms of documentation,
community-generated content, and pointers to community forums. 

Only existing, well-known domains that are already heavily linked and
known by the community are permitted as external domains. For other
historical domains that are not an important part of the project's
brand, permanent (301) redirects should point to the official project
website hosted on Eclipse Foundation infrastructure.

Projects with widely-used historical domain names may continue using the
domain with these considerations:

* Ownership of the domain name must be transferred to the Eclipse
Foundation; and
* The domain must be regarded and used exclusively as a community portal
(and not as an official project website).

[[trademarks-external-attribution]]
==== Trademark Attributions

The external uses of Eclipse Foundation trademarks must include a prominent
trademark attribution of all applicable Eclipse Foundation marks.

For example:

Eclipse Woolsey Intellectual Property Tools, Eclipse Woolsey, Woolsey,
Eclipse, the Eclipse logo, and the Eclipse Woolsey project logo are
either registered trademarks or trademarks of The Eclipse Foundation in
the United States and/or other countries.

[[trademarks-notes]]
=== Important Notes

Nothing in this Eclipse Foundation document shall be interpreted
to allow any third party to claim any association with the Eclipse
Foundation or any of its projects or to imply any approval or support by
the Eclipse Foundation for any third party products, services, or
events, unless specifically covered by an Eclipse Membership agreement.

Questions? Project participants who have questions about Eclipse
Foundation trademarks either used here or at third party sites should
contact the EMO. Other organizations looking for information
on how to use or refer to any Eclipse Foundation project trademarks or
logos should see the
{trademarkGuidelinesUrl}[Guidelines for Eclipse Logos & Trademarks].

Thanks and credit to the Apache Software Foundation's
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs[Project
Branding Requirements] (licensed under the Apache License, v2.0)
for parts of this trademark section.

[[trademarks-faq]]
Frequently Asked Questions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[qanda]
Can my company use the project name as part of their product name?::
	It depends on how the name will be used. Please see the
	{trademarkGuidelinesUrl}[Guidelines for Eclipse Logos & Trademarks].