On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:44:24PM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > It might be useful for you and others in the team to familiarise > themselves with the current status of our trademark policy - we have a > user group agreement which covers basic usage of the logo (derivatives > which identify the user group as being affiliated to GNOME, printing > posters, non-profit uses of the mark), and we have a model agreement > which we drafted for use with Open Source Factory, a German company, for > commercial use of the mark. I believe there was also an agreement signed > with Hackerthreads, but last I heard, we don't have it on record.
Sounds good. I'll check it out. > Any commercial usage of the marks has to be done case-by-case and > approved by the board. There's no way around that, it's pretty much a > minimum requirement of trademark law. Does your trademark policy define "commercial usage"? > Creating a t-shirt design is not a commercial activity of itself. The > precedent of user groups printing up t-shirts & selling them to recoup > costs has happened a few times - no problem there. Groovy. > > If this team is acting as an agent for GNOME on merchandising, then we > need to keep the board informed regularly, and of course, when we get to > the business end of things, ask the board to approve any agreements and > sign any contracts. Beyond that, I don't see trademark issues being that > important. It's good to know all the same from the onset. Feel free to take it out of the agenda. sri -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
