Use of company logos.

[chris4man]

Can you include a note on the license page - http://fontawesome.io/license/ - and on the logos section of the icons page - http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ that they should
only be used when referring to the brand/company itself and not as general images?

Adding a note when the logo comes up in a search might be over the top.

This came about because we discovered someone using the Stack Overflow logo as an icon on their website rather than as a link to Stack Overflow itself.

[tagliala]

http://fontawesome.io/icons/#brand

All brand icons are trademarks of their respective owners.

Is this not enough?

[chris4man]

Given that at least one person has used the Stack Overflow icon inappropriately I'd say not.

You would hope that it should be enough - and probably is for the more famous logos, but some people either don't understand or don't care and just think "oh, that's a good image for this option".

[tagliala]

Assigned to @davegandy for the next release. Any idea on how docs could be clearer?

[chris4man]

"Logos should only be used to represent the copyright holder"

Or

"[All brand icons are trademarks of their respective owners] and should not be used for any other purpose".

I think the second one says it all and doesn't add too much verbiage to the page.

[davegandy]

Added the text "Brand icons should only be used to represent the company or product to which they refer." to 4.4.1-wip branch. Closing.

[tagliala]

Reopening here, we are not good.

What is still missing

Warning in the new icons section.

Eg:

refers to #8120

Warning in the icon detail page

refers to #8153

[tagliala]

@davegandy credit-card-alt is also listed under brand icons. Is that wanted?

[tagliala]

Warning is displayed only if there are new brand icons

Don't like it, but it should be visible

[davegandy]

I'm going to close this one. We've had one single reported case of a brand icon being mis-used. Don't think we need to do this.