Use of trademarked name and icon

[bbhtt]

Hello @Lunarequest, we are tracking a bunch of applications with trademark violations.

Since this is a fork of the official Github desktop client, you cannot use their name "Github Desktop" and their trademarked icon for an unofficial fork.

Please try to use your own icon and name for the application to avoid trademark issues and confusing people. I think 2 months is a reasonable time period for us to wait for the icon to be changed.

You can find some resources for icon guidelines in https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-guidelines#app-icon and name in https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-guidelines#app-name

And the guidelines on trademarks https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-guidelines#no-trademark-violations

[Lunarequest]

the fork is maintained by a github developer and its more or less unofficially "blessed". the aim is to eventually merge the fork upstream but eta is unknown

[bbhtt]

Can you please confirm that they obtained permission to use this or if GitHub's license allows them to be used in a fork?

Otherwise it doesn't help here.

[bbhtt]

Was upstream contacted here?

[bbhtt]

The license in the README clearly states that the logo and branding is owned by Github

https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop?tab=readme-ov-file#license

The MIT license grant is NOT for GitHub's trademarks, which include the logo designs. GitHub reserves all trademark and copyright rights in and to all GitHub trademarks. GitHub's logos include, for instance, the stylized Invertocat designs that include "logo" in the file title in the following folder: logos.

The name and icon gives the impression that this is an "official" application from GitHub which is not the case here.