Hi Arnulf, > this is an excellent example of how the OSGeo trademark is being > "protected" by the community. At the same time constructive discussion > on the trademark policy is helpful to evolve how we deal with these > questions. It is good to see growing interest in using the graphics.
I agree with you here. I have been a bit to easy (== not thinking) on using the logo just thinking it would be under whatsoever free license but I was apparently wrong. I appreciated not having been attacked, but suggested in good manners. That is a sign of a healty community in my opinion. That said, I am still sad, that we can't use the logo just to widespread the word of OsGeo, even if I understand :) > And please by all means please feel free to use the standard OSGeo logo > to link back to OSGeo. > > As a side note to the broader community: Whenever you feel that you come > close to using the trademarked version of the OSGeo logo and colors or > want to explicitly use it in a context you are unsure of, feel free to > let the marketing mailing list know so that we can discuss this up front. Yeah, that is a good advice. To be honest we released geopaparazzi only now because of time issues, but I created it as part of my PhD thesis and presented it already in Sydney. Since then noone complains. I am wondering about two things: 1) is that because it is a paid application? 2) will I get lawsuited if I have the osgeo compass in my PhD thesis (available in the net) and in a couple of presentations I gave in the last year at conferences (all available on slideshare)? It would be bad to take them back, but if I have to... Regards, Andrea > > Best regards, > Arnulf > > andrea antonello wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> today we finally released the first version of Geopaparazzi on the >> android market. The project is released under GPLv3 an available on >> the homepage of the project [0]. >> >> Geopaparazzi is a tool developed to supprot very fast qualitative >> engineering/geologic surveys. It integrates completely with the BeeGIS >> digital tablet extentions, i.e. the data are imported straight into >> the GIS from the phone for further processing [1]. >> >> Geopaparazzi is sold on the Android market and supports the >> development of Geopaprazzi itself as well as the projects developed by >> the same team: JGrass, JGrassTools and BeeGIS. >> >> That said, I leave you to the documentation on the main website. >> >> Thanks for the attention, >> Andrea >> >> >> [0] http://www.geopaparazzi.eu >> [1] http://tinyurl.com/35zucxt >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > - -- > Arnulf Christl > President OSGeo > http://www.osgeo.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkygth4ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b1l7QCfeTgQS+8BKFO8hhwj3c4KaGly > N3wAoIL2VJ3hi25RVqZ6uVzvNdG2/XJc > =qhvI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss