Michael Gilbert writes ("Re: trademark policy draft"): > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > The benefit is that we have a legal tool against someone doing something > > nasty with our name. Which is nice to have, but doesn't come for free. > > It's hard to quantify as well: the benefit is for a future situation of > > which we do not know if or when it will happen. > > For what its worth, there are existing situations: e.g. > debian-news.net, debian-administration.org, debianadmin.com, > debian-handbook.info, debian-multimedia.org. > > Only one of those has been specifically opposed by the project, and a > kind request resulted in a domain rename without any kind of legal > wrangling (now deb-multimedia.org).
I don't think you can say that this rename wasn't made easier by our possession of the trademark. I wasn't involved in the discussions with the other project but whenever you have a negotation like this, the legal context is in the background. Like any other dispute, these kinds of things are normally resolved without having to go to a formal dispute resolution - but what _would_ happen if the dispute were to be escalated is a very important factor in the negotiations. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20522.33850.96601.365...@chiark.greenend.org.uk