So is there an "acceptable use of the trademark" document somewhere? Preferably
also
somewhere inside the distribution?
--- Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> OpenOffice.org is very pleased to announce that through the pro-bono
> work of the Law Firm of Oppedahl & Olson, LLP, we have received
> trademark protection in the US and we can now use OpenOffice.org®.
> You know, OpenOffice.org with the registered trademark symbol. Of
> course, the symbol should only be used for official communication and
> at that, sparingly--but informatively. The trademark protection will
> help us in several areas, such as with CDROM and other distribution
> problems. Today's announcement regarding OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 is the
> first to use the official ®.
>
> Our thanks to Carl Oppedahl and his team for making this possible!
> Team OpenOffice.org and I acted on behalf of OpenOffice.org. We
> followed the repeatedly expressed wishes of the community and also
> common sense.
>
> As mentioned, the trademark protection extends for right now just to
> the United States, though we are pursuing international trademark
> protection. We have acted on this--getting OpenOffice.org
> trademarked--with some discretion because we didn't want to broadcast
> our vulnerabilities too much.
>
> The history of OOo's trademark is long and varied. We've sometimes
> had it, sometimes not. In countries like Brazil, we do not evidently
> have it, and as a consequence, the Brazilian group have had to
> distribute OOo under a different name. Let's see to it that such
> unfortunate situations do not occur again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Louis
>
>
>
>
Sander
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