Hi,
We have no problem to give the rights to use VeraCrypt name to Tails,
"VeraCrypt Mounter" and all their derivatives provided that the
following terms are respected:
- Derivatives must not be commercial products. A dedicated commercial
license is available from IDRIX.
- There should be a clear indication to users that the software
provided by Tails, "VeraCrypt Mounter" and their derivatives are not
linked in any way to the VeraCrypt project or to IDRIX, and that all
support requests should be addressed to the authors of "Tails",
"VeraCrypt Mounter" and their derivatives.
If these terms are respected, then we allow Tails, the software
"VeraCrypt Mounter" and all their non-commercial derivatives to use the
name "VeraCrypt" in their name and the VeraCrypt logo in their logo.
Are these terms ok for you?
Regards,
--
Mounir IDRASSI
On 05/08/2018 21:43, segfault wrote:
> Hi!
>
> VeraCrypt Team:
>> We have no problem with you reusing VeraCrypt logo in Tails. The logo
>> itself is licensed under Apache License 2.0. I don't know if this can
>> help integrate it into Tails. In case of problem, we can make
>> exceptions for you.
> That's great! But after some more discussions, we see some more license
> problems, which we hope you can help us with:
>
> * We would like the custom mounter application we created to have
> "VeraCrypt" in it's name, so that it will be easier for our users
> to find it in the menus. Our working title is "VeraCrypt Mounter".
> But we found that the VeraCrypt license states:
>
> "This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors'
> name, logo, or trademarks, including IDRIX, VeraCrypt and all
> derivative names."
>
> So we would like to ask you if you could give us permission to use
> "VeraCrypt" in the application name.
>
> * We were thinking about creating a Debian package for the custom
> mounter application, and trying to get it into the Debian
> repositories. We don't know yet if this will work, because it has to
> be compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1], but if you
> are in favor of this, we could try it if you give us permission along
> the lines of:
>
> "We allow the software "VeraCrypt Mounter" and all derivatives to use
> the name "VeraCrypt" in its name and the VeraCrypt logo in its logo."
>
> [1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
>
> * Note: This point is only relevant if we can't create Debian packages.
>
> You gave us permission to use the VeraCrypt logo in the icon of the
> custom mounter application that we want to ship in Tails. But
> derivatives of Tails currently don't have this permission, so they
> have only the permissions granted by the VeraCrypt license, which
> does not allow the use of the logo. We don't want to make life hard
> for Tails derivatives, so it would help if you could grant the same
> permission to Tails derivatives (same applies to the use of
> "VeraCrypt" in the application name).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers
>
