Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 21 novembre 2013, à 11:55 +0100, Tobias Mueller a écrit :
> Hi :)
>
> On 21.11.2013 11:19, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > I think that if our trademark guidelines restrict too much our extended
> > community (by extended, I mean groups like downstreams, LUGs, etc.),
> > then things are broken.
> I agree.
>
> > This could be because the guidelines are unnecessarily too strict or
> > because the trademark requires too strict guidelines
> Can you elaborate? I don't think we want unnecessarily strict
> guidelines. It may very well be that our trademark guidelines need to be
> revisited.

If it's just because our guidelines are too strict, then I'm sure we can
fix this by revisiting the guidelines. But if it's because the trademark
law requires such strict guidelines, then there's not a lot we can do.

> > Btw, I suddenly wonder: if what is trademarked is the "foot + GNOME
> > text" image, then is usage of only the foot covered by the trademark?
> Probably not. But your premise doesn't hold true.
> http://www.gnome.org/foundation/legal-and-trademarks/ writes:
>
> The GNOME trademarks are:
>     The word GNOME™
>     The GNOME foot logo

Except that the GNOME foot logo that might be trademarked might be the
logo that includes the text. I don't remember what we did when we
trademarked it :-)

Vincent

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