On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:57 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> The community hasn't been given the right to give the name to anybody,
> or for that matter, take it from anybody. The community explicitly has
> no rights over the name whatsoever.
so, either one of two things has happened:
1) the project is a subsidiary part of the community; if the community
doesn't have the authority to use the name, neither does the project.
2) the project is not a subsidiary part of the community and has no
authority to say its output is the work of the community as a whole.
> You can't enforce policy that doesn't exist. A policy surrounding the
> trademark should have been defined at the inception of the community.
until the policy exists, the project can't possibly have authority to
use the trademark.
- Bill
