Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO DVD fulfillment web-page

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
bhorst@mac.com
646-464-2314 (Eastern)
www.solidoffice.com


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