We've discussed this a bit before and nothing has changed since then. There is no registered
trademark for OFBiz or "Apache OFBiz" or "The Open For Business Project" or
anything else that I'm aware of related to the project.
The only restrictions are those listed in the Apache 2.0 license.
If we did try to register OFBiz or whatever as a trademark it would be very public and open just like everything else, and in fact getting people involved to help sponsor the effort and the legal costs and such would be necessary. A trademark is not something cheap to get started and it takes a LONG time to get finished, and a lot of effort including legal/government efforts and enforcement efforts.
I don't think there is any benefit in doing this, especially not one that
justifies the initial and ongoing cost, so chances are this will never be done.
-David
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Thanks David,
Sorry, actually I had not read the thread but it's title. I was thinking
on another subject.
It was about trademark. Have you any idea if somebody can use the OFBiz
brand without the PMC or ASF consent ?
This to be sure that nobody never will use the OFBiz name outside of our
project...
In other word, ASF protect us on the licence level, but what about the
trademark level ?
Thanks
Jacques
----- Message d'origine -----
De : "David E Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
À : <[email protected]>
Envoyé : dimanche 27 mai 2007 16:34
Objet : Re: Branding
That's for the incubator. It doesn't affect OFBiz which is now a
graduated top level project, so the policies are rather different and
pretty much separate and can be found on apache.org.
-David
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Hi all,
There as been a discussion recently about branding on the incubator
ML
Re: Branding Guide clarification (was Re: to brand or not to brand?)
What is the status of OFBiz regarding this aspect ?
Jacques
