Thanks, Charles. On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: >>> That is all true. >>> But that does not mean that using an url as libreoffcedvd is >>> automatically OK. Maybe we should have paid more attention >>> discussing that? >> >> That's a valid point. But as far as I know, we don't have a policy on >> URLs that include the term "libreoffice" yet. Until we do, we cannot >> say that Dave is or is not following our policy! >> >> Once a fair policy is developed and agreed upon, I'm sure he and >> other project participants will be happy to follow it. Have you heard >> any discussion about this topic elsewhere that I may have missed? > > No indeed. So what I can say is that we have no trademark policy that > is being formalized now; I would as a caution advise against using > LibreOffice and the Document Foundation as trademarks for the moment. > On the other hand I commit myself to discuss an upcoming and acceptable > trademark policy asap and to speed up things.
We can take a look at the example of the Drupal community for one successful policy. The "Drupal" trademark cannot be used by for-profit companies or in their domains, but it is permitted for non-profits and in the domain names of non-profits. I think this has worked well for them, and could provide a good model for LibreOffice as well. I am looking forward to this conversation and developing a good policy for the trademarks going forward. Thanks for your input so far. -Ben Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
