@SuperDicq dunno for a wordmark it might. Not a trademark-lawyer myself. I do taxes for a living

@SuperDicq I meant masto asking lawyers with their trademark policy btw...

@SuperDicq as well: for some images they used from elsewhere some License-files are provided with them.

I have not found the logos in the code yet but they have to be somewhere since they are there when you deploy mastodon.

@SuperDicq sure is ey. But thats for mastos lawyers to figure.

But tbh I dunno if they even asked like proper lawyers at like the FSF. They would gladly help I am sure

@grillchen @SuperDicq Pretty sure though the Gentoo logo is also not in the sourcecode though

@SuperDicq I am tbh unsure if GPL (since logos are included in the source code) beats this policy.

They should have made clear tbh

@Jain Ich hab damit nix zu tun! (For legal reasons)

Moralisch bin ich bei dir

@snow ILLEGAL!

Go straight to jail don't go over start you don't 200€.

øl mastodon incoming

@weebdeluxe @bugbear There sure is still some good stuff in modern pokemon. The outfits they added since X/Y is one of them. And somehow they even resisted the urge to add MTX for them

Mastodon is doing clown stuff again...

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/

I know you have to protect trademarks and stuff in the US especially. But I sure hope they add an option to easily change the logo of the site soon.

@bazkie Its not even their fault. Legal systems especially the US one just suck balls.

So you need a trademark to able to protect it from misuse but in order to keep the trademark you must also litigate any unlicensed use of it in order to keep it. (when US law applies. I dunno if german law even has such a stupid provision....)

@ErikUden @haubles don't forget to rip out the mastodon logos from the software though or get consent to use them.

@weebdeluxe Stuff might get more interesting for forks of masto that change q lot. They might need changing as well btw

@Sylvhem @haubles @Mastodon They will have to make that change. Otherwise as far as I understood you need written consent to use it.

@weebdeluxe Its... interesting.

Its not super bad in itself just your usual "US-IP law is utter dogshit so we have to take measures to protect our IP in order not to loose it" kinda deal.

Though you can still use it for subdomains no problem with the disclaimer added to somewhere.

Thats fine. But mastodon also needs to change the open-source stuff since it includes Trademarks by itself:

Like hachyderm would need to remove the logo here for starters since using it without consent is a violation

@weebdeluxe ah yes trademark law my favorite... I will give you opinion on it if you want. Just need to read through it after a little snack

@weebdeluxe what?

@grillchen Sind das dann die Groupies der Band Scooter

(ich geh schon wieder)

@volpeon You can even have a real game boy as a treat!

@aetios they really did their best ignoring the problem for the atleast 20 years they were power