Hey Jonathan, Hey all@kde,
I am totally new to the KDE scene, but if you ask for my opinion:
I would really not recommend it.
If you begin with those "business game attitudes" on one day, you will
most likely end up opening a Pandoras Box. In my opinion, the best is to
keep out of those playing fields.
There has been "free riders" at any time. Fighting them is the first
step to enter a fighting world.
Uli - (KONTENT GmbH - KDE Supporter)
On 2020-07-08 18:12, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
Recently we've noticed some KDE apps ending up on the Microsoft Store
uploaded by unknown third parties. Maybe to up some credit score for
their developer account. Maybe to install bitcoin miners. We don't
know the motivations. Since it's all free software the licence allows it.
One option is to claim Trademark on all our app names. This isn't
hard, we just add the ™ onto the name anywhere we have it on our
website starting with kde.org/applications
<http://kde.org/applications>. Some apps such as KOffice have done
this in the past anyway. This doesn't cost anything, only a registered
trademark (which uses the ®. logo) costs money. It might give us more
ability to take down random people posting our software on app
stores. It might also make us look more corporate than we want to
look and put off Linux distros from shipping our software.
Should we add ™ next to the app names?
Jonathan
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