As a first reaction one might find the trademark discussion Christian brought up a bit picky, but it isn't.
There has been a lot of traffic on the board list regarding trademark issues last year, resulting in an enforced policy for PMCs to watch and protect their and Apache's trademarks. You might have noticed that for quite a few of subsequent board reports I added a trademark section. Also, we updated our site to include an updated trademark footer and a logo containing the copyright sign. This happened all along the lines of the board requesting the PMCs to observe and enforce trademark protection guidelines. So what happened here? Christian coined the term "Strutsathon", and it proved to attract interest, at least by others re-using it. Being aware of the issues raised by the board regarding trademarks, Christian found the term being worth to protect. As the originator of the term, he did a formal donation to the Struts project so that we can protect it as a trademark. This is in our best interest, since *we* as the Struts project want to be in control of Struts related terms. We can happily donate the right to use them to anybody who likes to. We would not be so happy if EvilCorp registers an obviously Struts related trademark and infringes us or our users for "naively" using it. In taking the first step to formally add a term like this to our trademark assets, we keep EvilCorp from being evil to us, which IMO a good thing. While our first and foremost interest is to write, support and publish great open source software, we as the PMC have to deal with formal requirements from time to time. Please don't take this easy, as the board and the membership won't take this easy either. - René Am 13.10.13 15:21, schrieb Christian Grobmeier: > On 13 Oct 2013, at 14:05, Dave Newton wrote: > >> Meh. What does it matter? > > You mean, why should we support Hackathons around Struts? > Or why should we protect our trademarks? > > The first question is obvious. So more so better. > > The second question: I followed the problems of Hadoop, CouchDB and so on. > If we generally allow the use of the term Strutsathon we can not ask for > respecting > our trademarks if a commercial entity abuses it (in our eyes). > > I believe it should be in the hands of the PMC to keep control of > Strutsathons and protecting > the trademark of it is in my opinion a first step. > > Cheers > Christian > >> On Oct 12, 2013 5:44 PM, "Christian Grobmeier" <grobme...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 12 Oct 2013, at 21:31, Dave Newton wrote: >>> >>> Adding "-athon" is common, I'm not sure I understand why we're >>> discussing >>>> it. >>>> >>> >>> Please read my initial email. Besides adding it as a trademark, I >>> suggest >>> to create some pages to support community driven Strutsathons >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 12, 2013 10:50 AM, "Frans Thamura" <fr...@meruvian.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Lukaz, your way will.inspiring.people to start the same way >>>>> >>>>> And good for all of us. >>>>> >>>>> F >>>>> On Oct 12, 2013 9:48 PM, "Christian Grobmeier" <grobme...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 12 Oct 2013, at 16:20, Lukasz Lenart wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I must say "I'm sorry Christian!". I supposed ask you first before I >>>>>> >>>>>>> have used the name Strutshaton. I'm really sorry, I thought about >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> but forget :( >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Don't worry! >>>>>> >>>>>> I think it was great you have chosen the term and you should keep it. >>>>>> I see a good opportunity to improve our community work when we manage >>>>>> to establish the term Strutsathon. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have to say "Thank you" for the good idea to organize another >>>>>> >>>>> Strutsathon >>>>> >>>>>> in Warsaw. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks & kind regards >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Łukasz >>>>>>> + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2013/10/12 Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com>: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello folks, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> as you know I previously invented the term "Strutsathon" for the >>>>>>>> first >>>>>>>> Strutsathon in Augsburg: >>>>>>>> http://strutsathon.opensource.****io/ <http://strutsathon.** >>>>>>>> opensource.io/ <http://strutsathon.opensource.io/> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> Now I saw Lukasz is using the term for one in Warsaw. I sense a >>>>>>>> pattern >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> hope there will be more Strutsathons to follow! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> As I invented the term "Strutsathon" I believe I have some >>>>>>>> ownership >>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>> it, >>>>>>>> despite the fact I use the ASF trademark "Struts". >>>>>>>> If I have any rights on it, I donate it to the project. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Then I believe we should add this term to our trademark >>>>>>>> information on >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> bottom of every page: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Copyright © 2000-2013 The Apache Software Foundation. All Rights >>>>>>>> Reserved. >>>>>>>> Apache Struts, Struts, Strutsathon, Apache, the Apache feather >>>>>>>> logo, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> and >>>>> >>>>>> the >>>>>>>> Apache Struts project logos are trademarks of The Apache Software >>>>>>>> Foundation." >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> PMC members who organize Strutsathons (or third parties whom we >>>>>>>> allowed >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> do so) should write something like this to the bottom of their >>>>>>>> page: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Apache Struts, Struts, Strutsathon and Apache are either >>>>>>>> registered >>>>>>>> trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> United >>>>> >>>>>> States and/or other countries, and are used with permission. The >>>>>> Apache >>>>>>>> Software Foundation has no affiliation with and does not >>>>>>>> endorse, or >>>>>>>> review >>>>>>>> the materials provided at this event, which is managed by >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> opensource.io >>>>> >>>>>> ." >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> (fyi: opensource.io is the brand i used to organize the >>>>>>>> strutsathon) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If you agree, I would like to add our new trademark here: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> * >>>>>>>> www.apache.org/foundation/****marks/list/index.html<http://www.apache.org/foundation/**marks/list/index.html> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> < >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://www.apache.org/**foundation/marks/list/index.**html<http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/list/index.html> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> And notify the trademarks team on this. I don't think there are >>>>>>>> comparable >>>>>>>> trademarks out, we are a trend setter :-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Finally I would like to push this kind of events and suggest we >>>>>>>> create >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> an >>>>> >>>>>> official website for Struts related >>>>>>>> events where we list for example the past event and also new events >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> like >>>>> >>>>>> the >>>>>>>> Warsaw one. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thoughts? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Cheers >>>>>>>> Christian >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>> http://www.grobmeier.de >>>>>>>> @grobmeier >>>>>>>> GPG: 0xA5CC90DB >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ------------------------------****----------------------------**--** >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --------- >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@struts.apache.****org< >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> dev-unsubscribe@struts.apache.**org<dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------****----------------------------** >>>>> --**--------- >>>>> >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@struts.apache.****org< >>>>>>> >>>>>> dev-unsubscribe@struts.apache.**org >>>>>> <dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> http://www.grobmeier.de >>>>>> @grobmeier >>>>>> GPG: 0xA5CC90DB >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> --- >>> http://www.grobmeier.de >>> @grobmeier >>> GPG: 0xA5CC90DB > > > --- > http://www.grobmeier.de > @grobmeier > GPG: 0xA5CC90DB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
