<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 13:00, Arun Shrimali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arun.reso@gmail.com">arun.reso@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is somebody is going to print t-shirts with "do it with Ubuntu" or "I<br>
Like Ubuntu" in India<br>
Or asking permission from Ubuntu to allow so<br>
I would like to have one T-shirt<br>
<br>
I am cross posting to Ubuntu mail list also so that Ubuntu people can<br>
also respond. Many other Ubuntu fan would be facing the same problem.<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Great Idea! However there is a bit of hassle involved in getting the Tshirts printed by some third party, other that Canonical. As mentioned in their trademark policy - <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy">http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy</a> , one is required to obtain a trademark license for "Use for merchandising purposes, e.g. on t-shirts and the like".<br>
<br>Alternatively what we can do is design a template for imprinting on Tshirts and distribute the design. One can then personally use the template and get the Tshirt printed by himself/herself from some online shop selling customisable Tshirts (We have personally used <a href="http://www.myntra.com">http://www.myntra.com</a> for getting our college tshirts printed, their prices are reasonable, within Rs. 300/- to Rs. 500/- . There are quite a few other such Indian shops as well and btw I don't work for Myntra, just one of their satisfied customers :) ).<br>
Open distribution of the community designed template based on Ubuntu logo should fall within "Community Advocacy" and getting the design printed on a Tshirt for personal use should fall within "no commercial intent behind the use" as one is not selling the Tshirts.<br>
Usage of the Ubuntu logo under the above circumstances is explicitly allowed by the Ubuntu trademark policy without a trademark license.<br><br>Ofcourse this was my two cents, kindly correct me if I have been wrong somewhere.<br>
Thanks.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Sambit Bikas Pal<br>MS 4th Year<br>Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata,<br><br>Web: <a href="http://www.botcyb.org">http://www.botcyb.org</a><br>OpenPGP Key: <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33F6A0B509354195">http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33F6A0B509354195</a>