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

Hi all,
On 30/12/2010 18:10, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Benjamin Horst wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's a good idea, but this policy will require significant adaptations
> to be useful for LibreOffice: for example, Drupal is not sold on DVDs,
> and does not share code with similar projects bearing its name (to make
> it clear: I can envisage someone wanting to build and distribute/sell
> something called "LibreOffice Professional Edition" consisting of
> LibreOffice + extras; this would be done in Drupal in a different way,
> with installation profiles not containing the "Drupal" name).
>
> The Drupal policy is very complex anyway: http://drupal.com/trademark
> And moreover, handling requests is quite a burden for Dries Buytaert
> (the trademark holder), at about 100/year (89 in 11 months):
> http://buytaert.net/drupal-trademark-policy-update-after-11-months
>
> So it's good to have a policy but you have to spend a lot of resources
> either to create a suitable one (you can use Drupal's as a starting
> point, but it really needs to be adapted and discussed) or to handle
> requests.

Fully agreed, and that should also be discussed with our packagers. Some 
of us have already spent hours, months if not years on this for OOo, 
André, Bernhard, René, Caolán, Cor, to name only some of them. So please 
make sure they are also in the discussion, their inputs will be really 
invaluable.

Kind regards
Sophie

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