[legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo

Chris Messina chris.messina at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 01:57:23 UTC 2008


The simplest thing you could do would be to offer a "coda" link
somewhere and give thanks to the OpenID community, linking to
openid.net and using the official logo there.

Otherwise I think you're more likely to encourage confusion for your
own users who might try to use their third-party OpenIDs on your site
and get errors.

Your case requires that you also do more to handle such error cases
and list the sources of identifiers that you're willing to accept.
Nothing about the protocol says that you must accept all OpenIDs, or
all providers, but in terms of displaying the logo, I think there is
some expectation that you'll be more permissive than note.

OTOH, Microsoft's HealthVault spells out which OpenIDs they support in
their help section:

https://account.healthvault.com/help.aspx?topicid=faq#OpenIDProviders

and make it clear on the sign in form that they only support certain providers:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/2917380552/

So... I think you can follow their model as long as you do the work to
properly set expectations.

I would strongly recommend AGAINST changing the colors or design of
the OpenID logo.

Chris


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:15 AM,  <colin.evans at nhs.net> wrote:
> So far nothing has been concluded. We've been round the houses via email.
> Someone was going to contact me by phone but so far this has not happened.
>
> The only specific statement I have is a response from the European (I
> believe) assignee of the OpenID trademarks indicating that the OpenID logos
> are not amenable to adaption.
>
> As our project is progressing fairly rapidly at the moment, i'm expecting to
> go live with our solution with no OpenID attibution on the page. It's a
> shame, because we'd like to give the organisation the credit for the
> protocol that is "under the hood", but I don't want to fall foul of
> trademark or copyright arguments.
>
> Our system doesn't delivery "an OpenID" in the classic sense, so using a
> stadnrd logo would just confuse users who know what tha logo normally
> signifies. On that basis no information is better tnan misleading
> information.
>
>
> Regards: Colin Evans
>          NHS CFH Capability & Capacity
>
> CONNECT DISCOVER SHARE eSpace today at
> http://www.espace.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Nat Sakimura [mailto:sakimura at gmail.com]
> Sent: 25 September 2008 05:25
> To: Snorri
> Cc: SignpostMarv Martin; legal at openid.net; colin.evans at nhs.net
> Subject: Re: [legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo
>
> So, I wonder what has happend to after this.
>
> I am wondering if TM committee has finalized their process etc.
>
> =nat
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Snorri <snorri at snorri.eu> wrote:
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>>
>> -Snorri
>>
>>
>>
>> De : legal-bounces at openid.net [mailto:legal-bounces at openid.net] De la part
>> de Nat Sakimura
>> Envoyé : lundi 18 août 2008 08:49
>> À : SignpostMarv Martin
>> Cc : legal at openid.net; colin.evans at nhs.net
>> Objet : Re: [legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo
>>
>>
>>
>> So, it seems there should be such variants like:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1) OpenID Foundation and Chapter Logo
>>
>> 2) OpenID Interoperable Logo (<= generic OpenID Logo, I think)
>>
>> 3) OpenID Inside Logo
>>
>>
>>
>> As to 2), I think there should be OpenID 1 and OpenID 2 differentiation.
>>
>>
>>
>> =nat
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:58 PM, SignpostMarv Martin
>> <signpostmarv.martin at slopenid.net> wrote:
>>
>> colin.evans at nhs.net wrote:
>> >
>>
>> > Is there a case for an "OpenID Inside" logo, with more flexibility
>> > around it's use?
>>
>> Indeed, an Open insIDe (too tongue-in-cheek ? :-P ) logo would be
>> beneficial.
>>
>>
>> ~ Marv.
>>
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>
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