The Aire Marks

These Guidelines cover the Aire marks in word or logo form. This set of marks is collectively referred to as the “Aire Marks.”

General Guidelines for Using the Aire Marks

Product Quality

It is fundamentally important to us that any permitted use of the Aire Marks is of the highest quality and integrity and meets the highest standards. To ensure this is the case, we reserve the right to revoke your permission at any time.

Fair Use

We acknowledge and support your right to make “fair use” of the Aire Marks, and do not mean to suggest with these Guidelines that our permission is required in such cases. We cannot, however, tell you categorically what will and will not qualify as a “fair use.”

For copies of the Aire logo itself, please use:

Linking to aireapps.com

We are pleased to permit you to link to aireapps.com from your website. We have provided several logo graphics for you to choose from. To use these logos you must agree that:

  • The logos will be used only on the Internet, only as a link to aireapps.com, and not as a favicon;
  • You will not imply or state an endorsement by Aire or otherwise misrepresent your relationship with Aire;
  • You will not disparage PAire using the logos;
  • Your use of the logos will not be deceptive or false in any regard;
  • You will not create a browser or border environment around Aire content;
  • You may link to Aire content;
  • Your website will not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive, or controversial, and will contain only content that is appropriate for all age groups; and
  • This permission may be rescinded at any time, in which case you will immediately remove the logos from your website.

Merchandise

You are welcome to make use of the Aire Marks to produce merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, bags, jackets, sweatshirts, mugs, and desktop wallpapers and give them to your friends, family, community members, provided there is no commercial interest behind it. You have to request permission if you want to commercially distribute articles using the Airet Marks (see “Contact Information” below to request permission).

Domain Names

If you want to include all or part of an Aire Mark in a domain name, you should seek our permission (see “Contact Information” below to request permission). People naturally associate domain names with organizations whose names sound similar. Almost any use of an Aire Mark in a domain name is likely to confuse someone, thus running afoul of the overarching requirement that any use of an Aire Mark is not confusing. By “domain name” we mean to refer to top-level domains and second-level domains, but not sub-domains.

Publications

If you want to include all or part of an Aire Mark in the name of a publication such as a book or magazine, you need our permission (see “Contact Information” below to request permission). But you can use the PAire Mark in e.g. a title of review inside a magazine.

Product and Service Names, and Compatibility References

You should not include an Aire Mark in the name of your product or service, regardless of whether it’s commercial or non-commercial in nature. This includes online services, such as e-commerce, community, blog, informational, promotional, and personal home page sites.

With that said, we consider it permissible to use an Aire Mark in a file, folder, directory, or pathname.

We also recognize that the Community needs some way to identify projects, products, and services that are compatible with Aire. Our concern is that users not be confused as to whether a compatible project, product, or service is official or not. To address that concern, we request that you indicate compatibility with Aire using one of the following tag-lines (or its equivalent):

  • “Works with Aire”;
  • “Uses Aire”;
  • “Compatible with Aire”;
  • “Powered by Aire”;
  • “Runs on Aire”;
  • “For use with Aire”; or
  • “For Aire”.

Business Names

You should not include an Aire Mark in the name of your company or business.

Commentary

We welcome comments and constructive criticism, and we try to have a good sense of humor. It’s fine to use the Aire Marks in your discussion, commentary, criticism, or parody, in ways that unequivocally do not imply endorsement. Please do not create mock or parody products with names based on the Aire Marks. Also, please be aware that, in our opinion, it is not “fair use” to use the Aire Marks in a manner that disparages Aire or Aire Project.

All Other Uses

All other uses of the Aire Marks need to be reserved by us, but we are available to discuss terms for use.

Contact Information

Please contact us if you need assistance regarding these Guidelines, e.g. for discussing your case or requesting permission, using our contact form.

License for these Guidelines

These Guidelines are published under Version 3 of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License, and are derived in part from the openSUSE Trademark Guidelines (February 13, 2017), which in turn is derived in part from the OpenSolaris Trademark Policy 1.0 (May 5, 2008), the Ubuntu and Mozilla Trademark guidelines.

We reserve the right to make changes to the guidelines at any time without notification. We last updated the guidelines on March 1 2024.