From 2080525eec22ee716c414d507d5b2395e3aa9adf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JeremyFunk Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:21:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] feat: trademark terms on /brand, and name Makisuo, Inc. as the owning entity The brand page granted use of the artwork with no boundary on it: "take what you need, no permission required" and nothing about the name. On an FSL project that points the wrong way. The licence hands a forker all of the code and none of the marks, but the page most likely to be read by whoever is forking said only that the assets were free. FSL-1.1-ALv2 already withholds trademarks in its own Trademarks clause, and the Apache 2.0 it converts to withholds them again in section 6, so section 05 is a restatement for people who will never open LICENSE rather than a new grant. It also states the other half explicitly: describing what you built is protected nominative use, and a policy that pretended otherwise would be unenforceable. Scoped to what a rebranded fork actually turns on. Licence-is-not-a-trademark, no use in product names or domains or handles, no implied endorsement, and revocability. Deliberately not here: a merchandise ban and a standalone registration clause, both of which appear in well under half of the comparable policies (Rust, CNCF, Grafana, HashiCorp, Docker, Mozilla, PSF, PostgreSQL) and neither of which bears on the fork case. Mark modification is already covered four times over by section 04. The ownership record named five different parties. Terms and Privacy said "Makisuo LLC", the root LICENSE said "David Granzin", three package LICENSEs said "Maple Tech Labs", clickhouse-builder said "Maple", and the footer said "(c) 2026 Maple. All rights reserved." The company is incorporated, so the two documents that actually bind users named an entity that does not exist. Every one of them now reads "Makisuo, Inc.", which also makes the "we" in the FSL Trademarks clause resolve to the party the brand page names. Vendored copyright is untouched: lib/llm stays with opencode and lib/thinking-orbs with Jakub Antalik. The footer's "All rights reserved" is dropped rather than reworded. It is a Buenos Aires Convention formality that has conferred nothing since 2000, and it contradicted the FSL badge rendered 12px to its right. The string is now locale-neutral, so the ja and ko footers no longer carry untranslated English. Editing a copyright line asserts ownership rather than transferring it. This assumes the founder IP assignment to the company has actually been executed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 --- LICENSE | 2 +- apps/landing/messages/en.json | 2 +- apps/landing/messages/ja.json | 2 +- apps/landing/messages/ko.json | 2 +- .../src/components/PrivacyContent.astro | 2 +- .../landing/src/components/TermsContent.astro | 6 ++-- apps/landing/src/pages/brand.astro | 30 +++++++++++++++++++ apps/landing/src/pages/brand.md.ts | 7 +++++ apps/landing/src/paraglide/messages/en.js | 2 +- apps/landing/src/paraglide/messages/ja.js | 2 +- apps/landing/src/paraglide/messages/ko.js | 2 +- lib/clickhouse-builder/LICENSE | 2 +- lib/clickhouse-builder/package.json | 2 +- packages/alchemy-maple/LICENSE | 2 +- packages/alchemy-maple/package.json | 2 +- packages/browser/LICENSE | 2 +- packages/effect-sdk/LICENSE | 2 +- 17 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index b47179b66..df36fda98 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ FSL-1.1-ALv2 ## Notice -Copyright 2026 David Granzin +Copyright 2026 Makisuo, Inc. ## Terms and Conditions diff --git a/apps/landing/messages/en.json b/apps/landing/messages/en.json index ddccc58c7..59889e1e4 100644 --- a/apps/landing/messages/en.json +++ b/apps/landing/messages/en.json @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ "footer_github": "GitHub", "footer_twitter": "Twitter / X", "footer_discord": "Discord", - "footer_copyright": "\u00a9 2026 Maple. All rights reserved.", + "footer_copyright": "\u00a9 2026 Makisuo, Inc.", "footer_privacy": "Privacy Policy", "footer_terms": "Terms of Service", "footer_brand": "Brand", diff --git a/apps/landing/messages/ja.json b/apps/landing/messages/ja.json index 49a896dd2..689d37354 100644 --- a/apps/landing/messages/ja.json +++ b/apps/landing/messages/ja.json @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ "footer_github": "GitHub", "footer_twitter": "Twitter / X", "footer_discord": "Discord", - "footer_copyright": "\u00a9 2026 Maple. All rights reserved.", + "footer_copyright": "\u00a9 2026 Makisuo, Inc.", "footer_privacy": "\u30d7\u30e9\u30a4\u30d0\u30b7\u30fc\u30dd\u30ea\u30b7\u30fc", "footer_terms": "\u5229\u7528\u898f\u7d04", "footer_brand": "\u30d6\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9", diff --git a/apps/landing/messages/ko.json b/apps/landing/messages/ko.json index a736ac95c..d193a240c 100644 --- a/apps/landing/messages/ko.json +++ b/apps/landing/messages/ko.json @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ "footer_github": "GitHub", "footer_twitter": "Twitter / X", "footer_discord": "Discord", - "footer_copyright": "\u00a9 2026 Maple. All rights reserved.", + "footer_copyright": "\u00a9 2026 Makisuo, Inc.", "footer_privacy": "\uac1c\uc778\uc815\ubcf4 \ucc98\ub9ac\ubc29\uce68", "footer_terms": "\uc774\uc6a9\uc57d\uad00", "footer_brand": "\ube0c\ub79c\ub4dc", diff --git a/apps/landing/src/components/PrivacyContent.astro b/apps/landing/src/components/PrivacyContent.astro index cd0dc70ad..e40b78f33 100644 --- a/apps/landing/src/components/PrivacyContent.astro +++ b/apps/landing/src/components/PrivacyContent.astro @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

1. Introduction

- Maple is operated by Makisuo LLC ("we", "us", "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, + Maple is operated by Makisuo, Inc. ("we", "us", "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect information when you use the Maple observability platform and related services (the "Service").

diff --git a/apps/landing/src/components/TermsContent.astro b/apps/landing/src/components/TermsContent.astro index 9788133b9..6beeadaee 100644 --- a/apps/landing/src/components/TermsContent.astro +++ b/apps/landing/src/components/TermsContent.astro @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

1. Acceptance of Terms

- By accessing or using Maple (the "Service"), operated by Makisuo LLC ("we", "us", "our"), + By accessing or using Maple (the "Service"), operated by Makisuo, Inc. ("we", "us", "our"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@

8. Limitation of Liability

- To the maximum extent permitted by law, Makisuo LLC shall not be liable for any indirect, + To the maximum extent permitted by law, Makisuo, Inc. shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, or business opportunities, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability shall not exceed the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim. @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@

Maple's source code is available under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2). Your use of the self-hosted version is governed by that license. These Terms of Service apply specifically to the - cloud-hosted Service operated by Makisuo LLC. + cloud-hosted Service operated by Makisuo, Inc.

diff --git a/apps/landing/src/pages/brand.astro b/apps/landing/src/pages/brand.astro index 7ee2c5cb4..541338568 100644 --- a/apps/landing/src/pages/brand.astro +++ b/apps/landing/src/pages/brand.astro @@ -368,6 +368,36 @@ const rules = [
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+ The licence covers the code, not the name +

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+ Maple's source is FSL-1.1-ALv2, and each release converts to Apache 2.0 two + years after we publish it. Neither one hands over the name or the artwork. The + FSL says so in its own words, and Apache repeats it in its section 6. So a fork + gets every line of the code and none of this page: ship it under your own name + and your own mark. Saying what it is stays fine. “A fork of Maple”, “built on + Maple”, “compatible with Maple” are all true, and none of them needs asking. +

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+ What isn't fine is looking like us when you aren't: Maple in your product name, + domain, or handle, or the mark placed so it reads as endorsement or partnership + where there's no agreement. We can ask you to stop, and if we do, please stop. +

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+ Maple and the Maple mark are trademarks of Makisuo, Inc. Other names and logos on + this site belong to their owners. +

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