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I realize it's used as a tongue in cheek reference to Resident Evil, but the "Umbrella Logo" is, among other things, trademarked[1][2][3].

I'm not sure about corporate ownership status here, but it would appear that someone's idea of movie merchandise was to sell firearms by registering a company called "Umbrella Corporation Weapons Research Group" in the real world. I could find several "licensed" arms in online stores. Possibly they're doing that to protect their IP, not out of any profit motive.

The name of the project won't be a problem, but you might want to steer clear of that particular logo. Entertainment companies can be very touchy about their IP and are known to be litigious.

[1] https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/umbrella-corporation-we...

[2] https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/umbrella-corp-4226588/

[3] Possibly more, but there's thousands of logos labeled "Umbrella" and I don't want to spend all day looking.

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true words, thank you. While the projects logo/name exists longer than I'm in the project, I had my thoughts about it as well.

I came to the conclusion, there are so many car stickers/unlicensed merch or even companies with a similar logo, there shouldn't be an issue for a small open source project. Maybe a dangerous conclusion, that should be revised when Alice grows :)

I'm not sure I'd express it so harshly as TingPing. I like the project and hope it succeeds. Still, seems somehow unwholesome and invites unnecessary controversy. A good logo represents the project or company, and so what does it say that you all are associated with a erm... borrowed logo?

That attitude doesn't reflect well on the project IMO. Very short-sighted and unprofessional.

Why would they need to be professional? It's an open source hobby project. People are allowed to code for fun.

Hey if you want it, I threw together an umbrella inspired logo that might be a good alternative. It's close, but should be different enough to be distinguishable.

https://i.imgur.com/aPMBndB.png

CC0 and all that of course.

Thank you, my first thought was a mixture of umbrella corp and the scanner drones from half life 2 :)

I put it up for discussion. We don't want to cling to our current design, but we aren't sure yet about a good way to approach a redesigns. Needs a bit time to decide what aspects of Alice in total should be redesigned

are you… also using the battle.net logo on the skill store? why

you’re like actively looking for trouble lol

Appears to be included in font-awesome, which warns that it is trademarked: https://fontawesome.com/icons/battle-net?s=brands

Someone probably just scrolled through available icons and ended up picking that one.

This - plus the skills icons can be chosen freely from font-awesome in skill creation. Maybe we should exclude fa-brand space from the allowed icons. Another good hint, thank you! And yep, the team dearly misses some creative heads for design as everybody involved is from the coding area :)

Because you can use whatever FontAwesome (for which I'm an early backer) icon when you are creating a skill for Alice using our backend skill creator on her browser interface. We could exclude the use of fa-brands.

Edit https://www.blizzard.com/fr-fr/legal/8bcb0794-6641-4ce3-a573...

Hmmm, but I red this at the time: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Umbrella_Corporation...

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