Today, we have adopted a new trademark policy for the Zcash trademarks that reflects the growing decentralization of the Zcash ecosystem.
The new trademark policy is shorter, simpler, narrower in scope, more permissive, and eliminates the trademarks’ role in Zcash governance.
You can read the full policy here.
[Speaking for myself.]
Thanks for publishing this! Looks good to me.
By the way, Trademark policy - Zcash Foundation links to zips/rendered/protocol/protocol.pdf at f3d5eb0858ef310611d1ea2f91fca586134818e9 · zcash/zips · GitHub which isn’t rendered properly by GitHub.
To link to the PDF file at a particular commit hash directly (which renders correctly in most browsers), use an URL of the form https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zcash/zips/f3d5eb0858ef310611d1ea2f91fca586134818e9/rendered/protocol/protocol.pdf .
The activation block hash of the most recent “settled” network upgrade (currently NU5) is always here: https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf#networks
You must not claim that your software is compatible with Zcash unless your software complies with the Zcash Protocol Specification, published at
https://github.com/zcash/zips/blob/main/rendered/protocol/protocol.pdf
This URL should be https://zips.z.cash/protocol/protocol.pdf . It’s shorter and would remain stable even if we stopped using GitHub, or if the directory structure of zcash/zips changed (as it has in the past).