Hi! I am grad student currently working on a package that uses Stan under the hood (specifically, CmdStanPy) for modeling. Ofcourse the package does more things, but Stan and the Bayesian workflow are its core components. I was thinking of including ‘Stan’ as a prefix to my package name. I have see…

I have now received comments from 2022 SGB, and I’ve seen the github discussion for the PR which did update Stan web page. 2022 SGB did also consult NumFocus which is the actual trademark owner. For completness the current version of About the Stan Project – Stan is Copyright and trademark Copy…

I don’t think we have any policy on this. I know that there are already some R packages that wrap RStan that use Stan in their names. Not sure about in Python. Tagging some people who may have thoughts on this @SGB @WardBrian @Bob_Carpenter and maybe others will chime in too

Stan web page states Both the Stan name and logo may be freely used when referencing Stan, for example, in blog posts, lecture notes, or open source software packages, but they may not be used in the branding of commercial entities, such as paid software packages or paid courses, without the expre…

Some relevant previous discussion (without a clear answer) here: [image] Trademark protection for Stan name and logo? Stan Governance Hi, @SGB . Has there been any discussion of enforcing trademarks for the Stan name and our logo? What made me think of this w…

[image] jsocolar: Some relevant previous discussion (without a clear answer) here: Thanks. I’ve send a message to @storopoli to get clarification what did SGB decide in 2022. I have a suggestion for clarification, but waiting more information.

To also comment on scikit_stan, the hope when it was started was that one day it would become an official stan-dev project. Unfortunately it was never far enough along for that consideration

Thank you all for the response! Eagerly waiting to see everyone’s opinion on this. Perhaps it would be appropriate to include a disclaimer indicating that a package or project is derivative and not affiliated with the official Stan team. All similar packages that use Stan under the hood could (shou…

I’m still waiting response from any of the 2022 SGB members who have possible discussed this before. I hope I can get back to you soon.

Thank you so much for the clarification!

Using the name 'Stan' for packages derived from Stan/CmdStan/CmdStanPy

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Some relevant previous discussion (without a clear answer) here:

Topic		Replies	Views
Trademark protection for Stan name and logo? Stan Governance	5	903	September 20, 2022
Soft release of a "tidyverse" style Stan R Package Developers	7	474	January 14, 2026
Hex stickers Publicity	1	599	December 8, 2019
PyStan license PyStan	33	5589	September 7, 2018
Hexagon Sticker for Stan Publicity	32	4681	December 14, 2021

Using the name 'Stan' for packages derived from Stan/CmdStan/CmdStanPy

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