I think ebassi has approached this 'problem?' appropriately with the introduction of twig. Attempting to find legal avenues to create a gag order seems a bit... well.. unproductive.
On Mon, 16 May 2016 at 17:01 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:28:04AM -0400, Dave Neary wrote: > > On 05/16/2016 09:41 AM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > > > How to avoid any organization or individual, could use GNOME trademark > > > to promote against GNOME? > > > > You cannot use trademark to stop someone from calling a thing by its > > trademarked name. > > > > For example, Mars cannot stop me from calling a Snickers a Snickers. > > They can stop me calling a different peanut, nougat, caramel and > > chocolate bar a Snickers. > > > > > Is the case of World of GNOME (WOGUE on G+). It recently has pushed > > > blaming, unsupported complaints (no data about his source is based on > > > real data from projects maintainers). > > > > Is the Wogue account talking about GNOME when they call it GNOME? If so, > > there is nothing you can do using trademark. > > > > In terms of things which are not GNOME, you can use the GNOME trademark > > if your usage is consistent with the GNOME trademark guidelines. (say, > > calling a website gnome-sucks.org might be a trademark infringement, > > since the gnome-sucks website is not GNOME, or consistent with the GNOME > > trademark guidelines). > > (Disclaimer: not a lawyer, not legal advice...) > > While a trademark wouldn't stop using the term "GNOME" to refer to > GNOME, a trademark is intended to prevent using the name GNOME for > something that isn't GNOME, including naming that makes something sound > official/affiliated. So while it wouldn't be at all appropriate to > prevent "World of GNOME" from using the name GNOME in its discussions of > GNOME (no matter what they're saying), I do agree that it *might* > potentially be appropriate to require them not to use the *name* "World > of GNOME", or to use a domain name that includes "gnome". Not because > of anything they're saying (again, trademarks do not and should not > shield against criticism), but for the same reason we might not want to > let an unaffiliated/unofficial news site use the name "GNOME News" or > use "gnomenews" in their domain. > > That said, I would suggest taking this off-list and discussing it with > the GNOME board. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >
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