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<div class="page-header">
	<h1><?php
 echo $l->t('Nextcloud Trademark Guidelines');?></h1>
</div>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('With these Guidelines, we wish to encourage widespread use of the Nextcloud trademarks by the Nextcloud community while managing that use to protect the distinctive value of the trademarks and avoid confusion on the part of Nextcloud users and the general public. The sections that follow describe the Nextcloud Marks covered by these Guidelines, as well as uses of these Marks that are allowed, uses that are not allowed, and uses that are only allowed with specific permission. See Contact Information below to request permission.');?></p>
	<img src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/assets/img/common/nextcloud-square-logo.png" style="width: 200px" title="Nextcloud logo governed by this document" alt="Nextcloud logo governed by this document" class="img-thumbnail alignright">

<h2><?php
 echo $l->t('The Nextcloud Marks');?></h2>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Nextcloud and the Nextcloud Logo is a registered trademark of <a href="http://nextcloud.com" target="_blank">Nextcloud GmbH.</a> in Germany and/or other countries..');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('These guidelines cover the following marks pertaining both to the product name and the logo: Nextcloud and the blue/white cloud logo with or without the word Nextcloud. This set of marks is collectively referred to as the "Nextcloud Marks." Please note that use of the white/orange/blue cloud logo is used exclusively by Nextcloud and its approved partners and is therefor not covered under these guidelines. Any permission for usage of that particular logo must be granted explicitly by Nextcloud whom you can contact at at <a href="/contact" target="_blank">our contact page</a>.');?></p>

<h2><?php
 echo $l->t('General Guidelines for Using the Nextcloud Marks');?></h2>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Product Quality');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('It is fundamentally important to us that any permitted use you make of the Nextcloud Marks be of the highest quality and integrity and meet the highest standards. To ensure this is the case, we reserve the right to revoke your permission at any time.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Fair Use');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('We acknowledge and support your right to make <em>"fair use"</em> of the Nextcloud Marks, and do not mean to suggest with these guidelines that our permission is required in such cases. We cannot, however, tell you categorically what will and will not qualify as a "fair use."');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Applying our Logo');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('For copies of the Nextcloud logo itself, please refer to the <a href="/press">Press page</a>.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Logo Usage Requirements');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Do not alter the logo in any way or overlap it with additional logos or images.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('The logo is light blue with black text on white. It should not be used differently, especially not inverted. The name "Nextcloud" can be optionally left out though, we provide logos without the text.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('The typeface of the logo (or similar ones) should not be used anywhere else. Instead use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sans" target="_blank">Open Sans</a>, in regular weight. Use bold sparingly and only for selected emphasis.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Branding Guidelines');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('When referring to Nextcloud make sure that it is spelled correctly. Nextcloud is one word and should not be separated into two words.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Contributing to Nextcloud');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('We encourage everybody to contribute to Nextcloud and become part of the Nextcloud community.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('If your contributions require trademark usage which is not permitted by these guidelines, please do not hesitate to contact us (see <a href="/contact">Contact us</a>).');?></p>

<h2><?php
 echo $l->t('Use Cases for the Nextcloud Marks');?></h2>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Running an Nextcloud Server installation');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You may use the Nextcloud Marks to identify your Nextcloud installation as long as you have not made any modifications to the Nextcloud Server core itself. Modifications to the Nextcloud Server here are defined as those which would would require you to provide them in source form to any user who asks under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html" target="_blank">license of the AGPLv3</a>.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Note that enabling Nextcloud apps and configuration of your server are not considered changes or modifications to Nextcloud.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Distributing Nextcloud Server without modification');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You can use the Nextcloud Marks to identify Nextcloud for Nextcloud Server downloads separately or as part of a Virtual Machine, docker image, installer, PHP server package or in another form as long as you have not made any modifications to Nextcloud Server itself. Modifications to the Nextcloud Server here are defined as those which would would require you to provide them in source form to any user who asks under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html" target="_blank">license of the AGPLv3</a>.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Note that pre-configuration and enabling or pre-installing certain Nextcloud apps are not considered changes or modifications to Nextcloud.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Rather than offering Nextcloud Server unmodified, we suggest to link to our installation page to ensure users can always find the latest Nextcloud release. If you offer Nextcloud as part of a package, image or installer, please keep security issues in mind. Offering easy and convenient update capabilities will greatly benefit your users. Where possible, we suggest to make use of official Nextcloud packages or zip files and tarballs.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Distributing Nextcloud Server With Modifications');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You may distribute or make available Nextcloud Server with modifications under the terms of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html" target="_blank">AGPLv3 license</a>.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('In making such a distribution you must remove all trademark uses of the Nextcloud Marks from the version of Nextcloud you are modifying. You may, if you wish, combine your own trademark with one of the following Nextcloud Mark tag-lines: "Based on Nextcloud," "Powered by Nextcloud," "Derived from Nextcloud," "Uses Nextcloud," "Built on Nextcloud," or "Built from Nextcloud."');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You generally will not need to remove or modify package headers, notes, README files, Changelogs, or other files containing uses of the Nextcloud Marks that merely describe the Nextcloud project, as long as such uses do not imply that you are formally affiliated with the Nextcloud Community.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Nextcloud mobile client');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('The Nextcloud mobile clients are available on the Apple (iOS) (not open source) and Google (Android) app stores. If you wish to distribute the Android client modified or unmodified on these stores you can not use ANY Nextcloud Mark other than what fair use allows and you must make sure that such stores are compatible with the respective Open Source license of such Nextcloud mobile app. This means you can NOT use the term \'Nextcloud\' in the name of your app. You MUST make clear that your app is NOT the official Nextcloud client and contains modifications from the original– if any. We reserve the right to demand you take down the Nextcloud client if you violate any of these provisions.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Any distribution in the current Apple app stores is incompatible to the Nextcloud mobile app license and therefor not possible. For distributing the Nextcloud mobile clients on any other app store, please contact us.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Nextcloud desktop client');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('The Nextcloud desktop client is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. If you wish to distribute the desktop client modified or unmodified you can not use ANY Nextcloud Mark other than what fair use allows. This means you can NOT use the term \'Nextcloud\' in the name of your client. You MUST make clear that your client is NOT the official Nextcloud client and contains modifications from the original. To obtain permission to distribute a modified or unmodified version of the Nextcloud desktop client with use of the Nextcloud Marks, please contact us.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Linking to nextcloud.org');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You are permitted to link to nextcloud.org from your web site. We have provided several logo graphics for you to choose from. To use these logos you must agree that:');?></p>
<ul>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('The logos will be used only on the Internet and only as a link to nextcloud.org, and not as a favicon (the little icon used in the location bar and tabs to identify a website);');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You will not imply or state an endorsement by the Nextcloud Community or otherwise misrepresent your relationship with the Nextcloud Community;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You will not disparage the Nextcloud Community while using the logos;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('Your use of the logos will not be deceptive or false in any regard;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You will not create a browser or border environment around Nextcloud Community content;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You may link to Nextcloud Community content or replicate content only after obtaining permission;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('Your website will not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive, or controversial, and will contain only content that is appropriate for all age groups; and');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('This permission may be rescinded at any time, in which case you will have to remove the Nextcloud marks from your web site within 24 hours.');?></li>
</ul>
<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Merchandise');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You are welcome to make use of the Nextcloud Marks to produce merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, bags, jackets, sweatshirts, mugs, and desktop wallpapers and give them to your friends, family, community members, provided there is no commercial interest behind it. You are required to request permission if you want to commercially distribute articles using the Nextcloud Marks (see Contact Information below to request permission).');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Domain Names');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('If you want to include all or part of an Nextcloud Mark in a domain name, you should seek our permission (see Contact Information below to request permission). People naturally associate domain names with organizations whose names sound similar. Almost any use of an Nextcloud Mark in a domain name is likely to confuse someone, thus running afoul the overarching requirement that any use of an Nextcloud Mark not be confusing. By "domain name" we mean to refer to toplevel domains and second-level domains, but not sub-domains.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Advocacy Groups');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('We welcome the use of the Nextcloud Marks in connection with user groups and other Nextcloud advocacy groups, but you may only do so in accordance with the following requirements:');?></p>

<ul>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('Your use is not commercial in nature;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('In using an Nextcloud Mark, you are in fact referring to the thing that the Nextcloud Mark represents;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('There is no suggestion (through words or appearance) that your group is approved by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the Nextcloud Community (or its related projects) unless it actually has been so approved, sponsored, or affiliated;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You do not incorporate other proprietary or commercial names in your group name; and');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You do not claim any trademark rights in the name, attempt to register the name with a trademark office or as a trade name, business name, or domain name, or conduct any business under the name.');?></li>
</ul>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Events');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('It is permissible to use the Nextcloud Marks to promote free and open source software events where individuals in the Nextcloud Community appear as advocates, demonstrating Nextcloud, giving talks, or otherwise represent the project, provided:');?></p>

<ul>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You do not misrepresent your relationship with the Nextcloud Community;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You do not disparage the Nextcloud Community using the Nextcloud Marks; and');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('Your use of the Nextcloud Marks is not deceptive or false in any regard.');?></li>
</ul>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Individuals can be Nextcloud contributors, members of the wider Nextcloud community, or Nextcloud users.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Publications');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('If you want to include all or part of an Nextcloud Mark in the name of a publication such as a book or magazine, you need our permission (see Contact Information below to request permission). But you can use the Nextcloud Mark in a title of review inside a magazine, for example, as long as you use the Marks to refer to the official Nextcloud community or products.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Apps, Product and Service Names, and Compatibility References');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You should not include an Nextcloud Mark in the name of your application, product or service, regardless of whether it is commercial or non-commercial in nature. This includes online services, such as e-commerce, community, blog, informational, promotional, and personal home page sites as well as Nextcloud apps, client apps or third party apps which interact with Nextcloud.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('With that said, we consider it permissible to use an Nextcloud Mark in a file, folder, directory, or path name.');?></p>

<p><?php
 echo $l->t('We also recognize that the Nextcloud Community needs some way to identify projects, products, and services that are compatible with Nextcloud. Our concern is that users not be confused as to whether a compatible project, product, or service is official or not. To address that concern, we request that you indicate compatibility with Nextcloud using one of the following tag-lines:');?></p>

<ul>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('"Works with Nextcloud"');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('"Uses Nextcloud,"');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('"Nextcloud App"');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('"Powered by Nextcloud"');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('"For use with Nextcloud"');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('"For Nextcloud" or');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('"Built on Nextcloud"');?></li>
</ul>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Advertising and Marketing Materials, including Business Cards');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You may use the Nextcloud Marks in describing and advertising your Nextcloud-related product or service, or on business cards to identify your affiliation with the Nextcloud Community, so long as:');?></p>

<ul>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You do not imply or state an endorsement by the Nextcloud Community or otherwise misrepresent your relationship with the Nextcloud Community;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('You do not disparage the Nextcloud Community using the Nextcloud Marks;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('Your use of the Nextcloud Marks is not deceptive or false in any regard;');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('Your description, advertising, or other use does not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive, or controversial, and only does contain content that is appropriate for all age groups; and');?></li>
	<li><?php
 echo $l->t('Your use of the Nextcloud Marks does not include or imply any commitment by the Nextcloud Community to provide support, service, indemnification, or updates.');?></li>
</ul>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Business Names');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('You can not include an Nextcloud Mark in the name of your company or business.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('Commentary');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('We welcome comment and constructive criticism, and we try to have a good sense of humor. It is fine to use the Nextcloud Marks in your discussion, commentary, criticism, or parody, in ways that unequivocally do not imply endorsement. Please do not create mock or parody products with names based on the Nextcloud Marks. Also, please be aware that, in our opinion, it is not "fair use" to use the Nextcloud Marks in a manner that disparages Nextcloud technology or the Nextcloud Community.');?></p>

<h3><?php
 echo $l->t('All Other Uses');?></h3>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('All other uses of the Nextcloud Marks need to be reserved by us, but we are available to discuss terms for use.');?></p>

<h2><?php
 echo $l->t('Contact Information');?></h2>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('Please contact us if you need assistance regarding these Guidelines, e.g. for discussing your case or requesting permission, by using our <a href="/contact">contact form</a>.');?></p>

<h2><?php
 echo $l->t('License for these Guidelines');?></h2>
<p><?php
 echo $l->t('These Guidelines are published under Version 3 of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License, and are derived in part from the openSUSE Trademark Guidelines (April 20, 2015), which in turn is derived in part from the OpenSolaris Trademark Policy 1.0 (May 5, 2008), the Ubuntu and Mozilla Trademark guidelines.');?></p>