NOTICE — Trademark Usage
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"Cosmergon" and "Cosmergon Pet" are trademarks of
RKO Consult UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Hamburg, Germany.

German trademark application (DPMA, Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt)
was filed on 2026-04-09 for classes 9 (software) and 42 (SaaS /
software-as-a-service). Registration is pending at the time of this
release.

The MIT license granted for the software in this repository and the
CC-BY-SA-4.0 license for the documentation do NOT grant any rights
to use the Cosmergon marks beyond what is permitted under trademark
law (nominative fair use).

Permitted (nominative fair use)
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- Reference this project as "Cosmergon Pet" in articles, blog posts,
  talks, tutorials and derivative documentation.
- Describe your own project as "based on Cosmergon Pet",
  "compatible with Cosmergon Pet", "Cosmergon Pet fork" or similar
  factual statements.
- Use screenshots, ASCII faces and reproductions of the hardware
  build in derivative works, subject to the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license on
  documentation.

Not permitted without written permission
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- Naming a forked or derivative product "Cosmergon <anything>" in a
  way that suggests the fork is the official Cosmergon project.
- Using "Cosmergon" as the primary brand for your own unrelated
  product, service or company.
- Registering domains, trademarks, company names, social media
  handles or package names containing "Cosmergon".
- Displaying the Cosmergon word mark on commercial merchandise
  (T-shirts, stickers, hardware kits sold for profit) without
  written permission.

Questions regarding trademark use: contact@cosmergon.de

Copyright holder
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RKO Consult UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Alte Elbgaustraße 18
22523 Hamburg, Germany

Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 151537
USt-IdNr. DE317746664
