Hi Ken, all,
Ken Foskey wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 05:04 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
I'm pretty confident that Sun does not own the name OpenOffice.org. I know for fact that a few months ago no one did. There was talk in the council about it, but I don't rember the resolution, so I hesitate.
OpenOffice.org is owned by the OOo foundation.
I'm sorry to contradict you, but there is no OOo foundation. Sun said at the begining they build the OOo project that there will be a foundation, but nothing more happened actually.
The name cannot be used as endorsement of any organisation unless approved by some process by OOo foundation. (I have no idea what).
The name was owned by Sun until one or 2 years, but this is not the case currently. The Community Council has been offered to get help in trademarking OOo in the US. From what I know we have accepted, the second step will be to internationalize the trademark application.
You can use OpenOffice.org in a non-endorsing fashion such as that you provide support for OOo or programming assistance for, or author documentation, ??? Something that means that your organisations supports OOo in some manner but not the reverse which is only true once endorsement is granted.
I don't think it's good to use OpenOffice.org for another purpose than the project and the product, it could be very confusing. But Hristo, you should ask on the NLC how other have handled this issue. Some of us have NPO related to OOo in our NL project in order to help our marketing task, or even participate to pay for developments. The FR one for example is called Cusoon :)
Kind regards Sophie
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