Hi,
I have received a trademark usage request from the BHV publishing house
in Germany. BHV is frequently publishing a package called
"OpenOffice.org <x.y> für Ein- und Umsteiger", means OOo for beginners
and people migrating from other suites (no idea what the English
equivalent of "Umsteiger" is). This package includes a handbook and a
DVD with the OOo binaries [1] [2]. Distributing the binaries is no
problem of course, and according to the Apache trademark policy [3]
using Apache trademark names in books is also granted without any
approval. What would be remaining is BHV's request to be using to OOo
logo [4] on the book cover, within the book and on the label of the DVD.
As far as I understood former discussions on this list we can handle
this issue here. I would advocate granting the OOo logo usage to BHV, as
such books foster the public visibility of OOo.
Mr. Ralf Kraft of BHV is on CC.
Best regards,
Peter
[1] http://www.bhv.de/index.php/openoffice-org-3.html
[2] http://www.amazon.de/dp/3826673476?m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&tag=idealoversand-21
[3] http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
[4] http://about.openoffice.org/index.html#logo
