Trademark Guidelines
How to use Beekeeper Studio's trademarks when interacting with the project. Last updated: 2022-02-11.
Beekeeper Studio
This trademark policy was prepared to help you understand how to use the Beekeeper Studio, Inc. trademarks, service marks and logos with Beekeeper Studio Community Edition.
While some of our software is available under a free and open source software license, that copyright license does not include a license to use our trademark, and this Policy is intended to explain how to use our marks consistent with background law and community expectation.
Our word trademarks and service marks: Beekeeper Studio.
Our logos: The Beekeeper Studio logos shown in the press kit
This policy encompasses all trademarks and service marks, whether they are registered or not.
Whenever you use one of our marks, you must always do so in a way that does not mislead anyone about what they are getting and from whom. For example, you cannot say you are distributing Beekeeper Studio, Inc.’s software when you’re distributing a modified version of it, because recipients may not understand the differences between your modified versions and our own.
You also cannot use our logo on your website in a way that suggests that your website is an official website or that we endorse your website.
You can, though, say you like the Beekeeper Studio software, that you participate in the Beekeeper Studio community, that you are providing an unmodified version of the Beekeeper Studio software.
You may not use or register our marks, or variations of them as part of your own trademark, service mark, domain name, company name, trade name, product name or service name.
Trademark law does not allow your use of names or trademarks that are too similar to ours. You therefore may not use an obvious variation of any of our marks or any phonetic equivalent, foreign language equivalent, takeoff, or abbreviation for a similar or compatible product or service. We would consider the following too similar to one of our Marks:
My Beekeeper Studio
Beekeeper Studio FooBar
When you redistribute an unmodified copy of our software – the exact form in which we make it available – you must retain the marks we have placed on the software to identify your redistribution.
If you distribute a modified version of our software, you must remove all of our logos from it. You may use our word marks, but not our logos, to truthfully describe the origin of the software that you are providing. For example, if the code you are distributing is a modification of our software, you may say, “This software is derived from the source code for Beekeeper Studio.”
You may use the word marks, but not the logos, to truthfully describe the relationship between your software and ours. Any other use may imply that we have certified or approved your software. If you wish to use our logos, please contact us to discuss license terms.
If you wish to describe your product with reference to the Beekeeper Studio software, here are the conditions under which you may do so.
You may call your software XYZ (where XYZ is your product name) for Beekeeper Studio only if:
All versions of the Beekeeper Studio software you deliver with your product are the exact binaries provided by us.
Your product is fully compatible with the APIs for the Beekeeper Studio software described at docs.beekeeperstudio.io.
You use the following legend in marketing materials or product descriptions: “Beekeeper Studio is a trademark of Beekeeper Studio, Inc. https://beekeeperstudio.io”
You can use the Word Marks as part of your user group name provided that:
When you have the right to use our mark, here is how to display it.
The first or most prominent mention of a mark on a webpage, document, or documentation should be accompanied by a symbol indicating whether the mark is a registered trademark (“®”) or an unregistered trademark (“™”). If you don’t know which applies, contact us.
Place the following notice at the foot of the page where you have used the mark: Beekeeper Studio is trademark of Beekeeper Studio, Inc.”
Always use trademarks in their exact form with the correct spelling, neither abbreviated, hyphenated, or combined with any other word or words.
Don’t pluralize a trademark.
Always use a trademark as an adjective modifying a noun.
You may not change any logo except to scale it. This means you may not add decorative elements, change the colors, change the proportions, distort it, add elements, or combine it with other logos.
However, when the context requires the use of black-and-white graphics and the logo is color, you may reproduce the logo in a manner that produces a black-and-white image.
These guidelines are based on the Model Trademark Guidelines, available at http://www.modeltrademarkguidelines.org., used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US.