Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-29 Thread Karen Sandler
This section is quite broad, and is only modified by the somewhat vague Fair Use section. Unfortunately, if taken literally, it would prevent On Thu, July 28, 2011 4:24 pm, Alan Cox wrote: The Fair Use section has another problem btw when someone is looking at this. Fair Use has no meaning

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
I'm not the world's foremost expert in trademark law but I am a lawyer and have worked in this area in my tenure at the Software Freedom Law Center. The language that I proposed was reviewed in other contexts by other lawyers at SFLC as well as lawyers at various companies that were involved

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011, à 20:13 -0400, Karen Sandler a écrit : This requirement is waived in all contexts where such marks are not normally included, such as email, online discussion, package names, non-graphical advertisements (when permitted), and academic papers. We encourage the

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
This section is quite broad, and is only modified by the somewhat vague Fair Use section. Unfortunately, if taken literally, it would prevent The Fair Use section has another problem btw when someone is looking at this. Fair Use has no meaning in most legal systems outside the USA. I'm

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-28 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, July 28, 2011 4:12 am, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011, à 20:13 -0400, Karen Sandler a écrit : This requirement is waived in all contexts where such marks are not normally included, such as email, online discussion, package names, non-graphical advertisements (when

proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-27 Thread Karen Sandler
Various people have pointed out that a part of the GNOME Foundation Trademark Usage Guidelines for Third Parties could be improved. The Guidelines are at: http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/ The section entitled Use Proper Notice of Trademark reads: Identify GNOME Trademarks