[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Cartinus
Huh? What's really touchy is the osmf being secretive about something. If you got a letter from some lawyer, then the only way you might get all the volunteers in this project to comply is telling them what is happening. Original Message Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 01/02/2013 16:52, Cartinus wrote: Huh? What's really touchy is the osmf being secretive about something. If you got a letter from some lawyer, then the only way you might get all the volunteers in this project to comply is telling them what is happening. Original Message

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Lester Caine
Christopher Woods (IWD) wrote: My opinion? All this is irrelevant and OSM is fine to continue using geocode. IANAL but I do work in a sector concerned with intellectual property and EU law; based on extensive prior art and extensive genericised usage of the word geocode any trademark of the