On 12-12-31, at 12:05 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12-12-31, at 11:53 , Rob Weir <rabas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Dec 31, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Armin Le Grand <armin_le_gr...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi List, >>>> >>>> my wife showed me the following link which leads to the AppStore, to an >>>> AOO ODF format raeder application nicely using the AOO logo, link is >>>> >>>> https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/ooreader/id480844649?mt=8 >>> >>> >>> >>> Interesting. But does anyone recall giving permission to use the logo? >>> The way they are using it appears (to me at least) a relationship >>> with the AOO project which is unwarranted. >>> >> I checked if we'd granted them permission to use OpenOffice.org logo etc >> back in the day but came up with no record of that. (It would be in the >> logos@ openofficedotorg list, a private one but archived, or was, once.) BML >> Solutions is evidently based in Montreal, thus, as the loonie flies, not far >> from me. I can contact them and ask them about this, as well as their >> general work, and ask them to work with us, as we require all to do. >> > > Do you get any sense of whether their app involves any AOO code at > all? IMHO, it would be hard to justify giving permission to use the > logo if the app involved neither the community nor the code.
I don't know about the code, haven't checked (busy). I was simply going to ask the developer, and point him to the published principles governing use of the trademark. I can cc this or any list when I do that. louis
