No problem, it was at least a few months ago.
-David
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Thanks David,
And sorry not to have followed previous threads about this subject.
Jacques
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
