Trademark Policy

1. Purpose

The SqueHub name, logos, icons, product names, visual identity, and other distinctive brand elements identify the official SqueHub framework and project. This policy encourages accurate community discussion and compatibility references while protecting users from confusion about source, sponsorship, certification, or endorsement.

This policy covers trademark and brand use. It does not replace the software license, copyright notices, contributor terms, or third-party licenses. Open-source permission to copy or modify code does not automatically grant permission to use SqueHub branding for a product or service.

2. SqueHub marks

SqueHub marks include, without limitation:

• the word SqueHub and its stylized forms;
• official SqueHub logos, icons, badges, color treatments, and lockups;
• names and visual identifiers used for official SqueHub services, tools, Kits, Packages, documentation, events, or programs; and
• confusingly similar names, spellings, logos, or designs when used in a way likely to imply an official relationship.

SqueHub retains all rights and goodwill in its marks. No permission in this policy transfers ownership, creates an exclusive license, or authorizes registration of a SqueHub mark.

3. Uses that are generally allowed

Without separate written permission, you may usually:

1. refer truthfully to SqueHub in news, commentary, reviews, tutorials, books, research, and other editorial discussion;
2. state accurately that an application, Package, Kit, integration, course, event, or service works with or is built with SqueHub;
3. link to the official website, documentation, or repository;
4. reproduce an unmodified screenshot for accurate explanation or reporting, provided it does not expose private information or suggest endorsement; and
5. use the word SqueHub in ordinary text to identify the framework, with your own brand more prominent.

These uses must be truthful, proportionate, and unlikely to confuse a reasonable person about who publishes, maintains, supports, or endorses the referenced offering.

4. Naming community projects

Community Packages, Kits, integrations, repositories, courses, events, and businesses must have their own distinctive primary name. A descriptive phrase such as “Media tools for SqueHub” or “Acme integration compatible with SqueHub” is ordinarily clearer than making SqueHub the dominant name.

Unless you have written authorization, do not:

• publish under the reserved squehub/ vendor or namespace;
• begin a product, package, domain, repository, organization, company, or social handle with SqueHub;
• use Official, Certified, Approved, Partner, SqueHub Team, or similar wording that implies status granted by SqueHub;
• copy the naming pattern or visual presentation of an official Package or Kit in a confusing way; or
• use a misspelling, transliteration, abbreviation, or lookalike intended to capture mistaken traffic.

A compatibility statement must identify the versions actually tested and must be updated or removed when it is no longer accurate.

5. Logo and icon use

Use official artwork obtained from an official SqueHub source. Keep the original proportions, orientation, colors, typography, and clear space. The mark must remain legible and visually separate from your own identity.

Without written permission, do not:

• redraw, stretch, crop, rotate, recolor, outline, animate, or add effects to an official mark;
• combine it into another logo or create a derivative logo;
• place it on a confusingly similar interface, product icon, avatar, favicon, app-store icon, or social profile;
• use it as the most prominent element in advertising or packaging for an independent offering;
• place it on unlawful, deceptive, discriminatory, pornographic, malicious, or security-abusive material; or
• use it in a way that damages the mark or makes official text unreadable.

An authorized brand kit or written license may establish more specific rules. Those specific terms control over this general policy for the authorized use.

6. Websites, domains, applications, and social accounts

A domain, application name, marketplace listing, organization, or social account must not appear to be operated by SqueHub when it is independent. Your own identity should be clear in the name, header, metadata, account biography, and contact information.

Do not register or use a domain or handle containing a SqueHub mark to impersonate the project, divert users, distribute malicious code, capture credentials, exploit typographical errors, or demand payment for transfer. SqueHub may request transfer or cancellation of a confusing identifier and may use available platform or legal processes where necessary.

7. Events, education, consulting, hosting, and commercial services

You may truthfully describe the subject or compatibility of an independent event, course, consulting service, hosting product, publication, or support offering. The organizer and independent status must be clear before purchase or registration.

Use of an official logo, official-looking event identity, certification claim, sponsorship claim, or dominant SqueHub branding requires written permission. A disclaimer can help clarify independence but does not cure an otherwise confusing name or design.

Suggested wording for an independent offering is:

Independent community offering. Not sponsored, endorsed, or operated by SqueHub.

Do not state or imply that completing a course, buying a service, or attending an event results in official SqueHub certification unless SqueHub has created that program and authorized the claim.

8. Merchandise and physical goods

Producing, selling, or distributing merchandise bearing an official SqueHub mark requires written permission, except for a small, non-commercial item made solely for personal use where applicable law permits it and no confusion is created. Fundraising, giveaways, conference materials, and cost-recovery distribution can still be commercial or promotional uses and should be reviewed.

Approval may address quality, quantity, territory, duration, suppliers, samples, revenue, safety, and disposal of remaining inventory.

9. Attribution and symbols

When practical, identify SqueHub as the source of its marks. A notice may state:

SqueHub and the SqueHub logo are trademarks of the SqueHub project. This offering is independent and is not endorsed by SqueHub.

Do not use the registered-trademark symbol ® for a SqueHub mark unless SqueHub confirms that the mark is registered for the relevant goods or services in the relevant jurisdiction. Use of TM does not create permission beyond this policy.

10. Requesting permission

Send requests to hello@squehub.com with the subject Trademark permission. Include:

• your legal or project name and contact information;
• the exact mark and artwork requested;
• mock-ups showing size, placement, surrounding text, and your own branding;
• the product, event, channel, audience, countries, duration, and quantity;
• whether money, sponsorship, advertising, or fundraising is involved; and
• any deadline.

Silence is not permission. Approval must be written and may contain conditions. Permission for one use does not authorize a later campaign, derivative, domain, product, or transfer to another person.

11. Reporting misuse

Report suspected impersonation, phishing, counterfeit goods, confusing domains, or misleading branding to hello@squehub.com with the subject Trademark report. Include the exact URL, screenshots, dates, and a short explanation. Do not interact with suspected malicious content merely to collect evidence, and do not send credentials.

12. Enforcement, revocation, and legal rights

SqueHub may ask that a use be corrected or stopped when it creates confusion, misrepresents compatibility, harms users, violates law, weakens the marks, or departs from an authorization. Permission may be modified or revoked in writing, especially where circumstances, ownership, quality, or risk changes.

Nothing in this policy limits rights available under nominative fair use, descriptive fair use, news reporting, criticism, parody, or another lawfully applicable doctrine. Those doctrines depend on facts and jurisdiction. If you are uncertain about a significant commercial use, obtain independent advice before launch.

SqueHub may update this policy as its brand and ecosystem develop. The public last-updated date identifies the current version.