[Numpy-discussion] Permissable NumPy logo usage

[Stephan Hoyer]

I don't know the history of the NumPy logo, or who officially owns the
rights to NumPy's branding at this point. In principle, that might be
NumFOCUS, but the logo far predates NumFOCUS and NumFOCUS's fiscal
sponsorship of NumPy. Looking at the Git history, it looks like David
Cournapeau added it to NumPy's repo back in 2009:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/commit/c5b2f31aeafa32c705f87f5801a952e394063a3d

Just speaking for myself, I think this use for NumPy's logo and name is
appropriate and within community norms. I don't think anyone would be
confuse your project with NumPy or assume any sort of official endorsement.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:52 AM Daniel Smith <dgasmith at vt.edu> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I have a project which combines NumPy and a quantum chemistry program
> (Psi4, psicode.org) for education and rapid prototyping. One of the
> authors has proposed a new logo which is a tweaked form of the the NumPy
> and Psi4 logos combined. I was curious if we were violating any NumPy
> copyright or community taboos in either using the NumPy name or a modified
> version of the NumPy logo. Any advice or direction would be most welcome.
>
> Current logo:
>
> https://github.com/psi4/psi4numpy/blob/master/media/psi4banner_numpy_interactive.png
>
> Proposed logo:
>
> https://github.com/loriab/psi4numpy/blob/0866d0fb67f2c9629e2ba37bc4a091e20695a09f/media/psi4numpybanner_eqn.png
>
> Project link:
> https://github.com/psi4/psi4numpy
>
> ChemRxiv:
>
> https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Psi4NumPy_An_Interactive_Quantum_Chemistry_Programming_Environment_for_Reference_Implementations_and_Rapid_Development/5746059
>
> Cheers,
> -Daniel
>
> —
> Daniel G. A. Smith
> Software Scientist
> The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI <http://molssi.org/>)
> @dgas_smith
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