Top Post: I wrote to the company—one guy—and politely asked him to abide by Apache's (and more particularly AOO's) provisions. I did this via LinkedIn, as a direct email to him didn't work. In my note, I cc'd the PMC private list. No news yet!—and I wrote him last year, too! :-)
-louis On 12-12-31, at 14:25 , Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12-12-31, at 12:05 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 12-12-31, at 11:53 , Rob Weir <rabas...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Dec 31, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Armin Le Grand <armin_le_gr...@me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi List, >>>>> >>>>> my wife showed me the following link which leads to the AppStore, to an >>>>> AOO ODF format raeder application nicely using the AOO logo, link is >>>>> >>>>> https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/ooreader/id480844649?mt=8 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Interesting. But does anyone recall giving permission to use the logo? >>>> The way they are using it appears (to me at least) a relationship >>>> with the AOO project which is unwarranted. >>>> >>> I checked if we'd granted them permission to use OpenOffice.org logo etc >>> back in the day but came up with no record of that. (It would be in the >>> logos@ openofficedotorg list, a private one but archived, or was, once.) >>> BML Solutions is evidently based in Montreal, thus, as the loonie flies, >>> not far from me. I can contact them and ask them about this, as well as >>> their general work, and ask them to work with us, as we require all to do. >>> >> >> Do you get any sense of whether their app involves any AOO code at >> all? IMHO, it would be hard to justify giving permission to use the >> logo if the app involved neither the community nor the code. > > I don't know about the code, haven't checked (busy). I was simply going to > ask the developer, and point him to the published principles governing use of > the trademark. I can cc this or any list when I do that. > > louis > >
