Hi, On 08/04/2017 07:28 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > You must be joking, there is no proposed strict policy, just a very > lenient one.
The work on the trademark policy has started a few years ago, and I was involved in the beginning. I can certainly vouch for one thing: The policy proposed here is, compared to trademark policies of other "Open" projects like e.g. Debian, very, very lenient. There are explicit permissions for the community to use the marks for various purposes without asking permission; you may even print T-Shirts at a community event and sell them (!) without having to ask anyone for permission. You will be hard pressed to find any trademark policy that goes to such lengths to give the community the freedom to use what is essentially their marks. Which doesn't mean that there's no room for improvement, but calling this a "strict" policy certainly means you haven't read a lot of trademark policies ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
