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.
Hi, have you some links to these applications?
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 [1]. 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?
As other already posted, I don't think this is sufficient nor do I think that is really the direction we should move to. (at least for Kate, I am fine with the status quo). Greetings Christoph
Jonathan Links: ------ [1] http://kde.org/applications
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