Hi Sebastian, > In my opinion, Sugar Labs has about four options how to act wrt > SoaS. > > (1) SL decides the current SoaS to be *the* SoaS and enforces the > brand. (Did you know that you're able to lose a trademark when > not enforcing it?) Exceptions could be granted by a trademark > committee.
I think you're going to get seven different answers from seven different SLOBs, but it's very reasonable to ask. Personally, I would go with (1), establishing that SoaS is a product of SL. I wouldn't make any future-exclusionary statements of the form "SoaS is going to be the only way that SL distributes Sugar"; it should be a positive statement about how SL feels about SoaS, rather than a negative statement about anyone else's current or future work. I don't think I'm ready to support actually filing a trademark application, because I think that costs at least a thousand dollars per registration per year that we don't have and could be better spent, and it doesn't really change much -- it seems that saying "The SL policy on using the following terms is <this>" as a social statement should be almost as effective as making the expensive legal statement for us. FWIW, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[email protected]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
