# Trademarks

cronstable™, the cronstable name, and the cronstable logo (the wordmark whose
"l" is a self-balancing double pendulum) are trademarks of Parker Loflin (the
"cronstable authors"). All rights in these marks are reserved.

These are currently **unregistered** marks, asserted through use in commerce and
denoted with the ™ symbol. (If a registration later issues, for example with the
USPTO, the ® symbol replaces ™ for the registered mark and this notice is
updated.)

## The code license is not a trademark license

cronstable's source code is released under the MIT License (see
[LICENSE](LICENSE) and [LICENSING.md](LICENSING.md)). The MIT License grants
broad rights over the *code*: use, modification, and redistribution. It does
**not** grant any right to use the cronstable name or logo as a trademark.
Copyright and trademark are separate bodies of law: you keep every freedom the
MIT License gives you over the source while the name and logo stay protected.

## The artwork is reserved separately

Trademark and copyright protect different things here. Trademark protects the
**mark**: the name and the logo as identifiers that tell you where the software
came from. Copyright protects the **artwork**: the specific rendered image
files. So the logo is held back twice over, and the rendered logo files are also
excluded from the MIT grant. The exact list is in the brand assets section of
[LICENSING.md](LICENSING.md).

The code that *draws* the logo stays MIT, like the rest of the source. The mark
it produces is still a mark.

## What you may do without asking

- Refer to the project by name, truthfully (nominative fair use), e.g. "a plugin
  for cronstable" or "monitoring built on cronstable".
- State that your product works with, integrates with, or is compatible with
  cronstable, as long as you do not imply that the cronstable authors endorse,
  sponsor, or produce it.
- Redistribute unmodified cronstable under its MIT License, keeping the marks as
  they are.

## What needs permission

- Using "cronstable", or a confusingly similar name, for a different or modified
  product, a fork you distribute, a company, a domain, or an app-store listing.
- Using the cronstable logo as the logo or icon for your own product or service.
- Any use that suggests affiliation with, or endorsement by, the cronstable
  authors where there is none.

If you distribute a modified version, please give it a distinct name and logo
and make clear it is a derivative that the cronstable authors do not endorse.
This mirrors how cronstable itself is a renamed derivative of
[yacron](https://github.com/gjcarneiro/yacron): a distinct name, its own
branding, and an upfront disclosure of the lineage.

## Questions

For trademark permission or questions, open an issue or contact the maintainer.
