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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