Hi Tim, On Sat, 16. Oct 2010 at 01:42:54 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote: > We (the PSC) recently received a threat of legal action against our > use of the word 'Tethys' in the naming of the 1.5 release of QGIS. > It seems that the word Tethys is trademarked by a company in one country. > Although we feel their case is weak, we do not have the time, money or > inclination to engage in a legal battle over this.
Does OSGeo have a position on this? I thought the OSGeo umbrella was also covering legal support. Just curious - that would probably be a waste of time of resources anyway. > This has a few implications: > - The PSC has agreed to stop using planetary moons as the names for > our releases, and embark on a new theme of using extremely obscure > place names (e.g. the mythical Tweebuffelsmeteenskootgeskietfontein in > South Africa). Do we need codenames at all? Any name - obscure or not - could be a trademark. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer