So, assuming my special characters make it through ok, what would be the preferred way of writing "Evergreen ILS" with a trademark symbol?
Evergreen® ILS / Evergreen™ ILS or Evergreen ILS® / Evergreen ILS™ Alexey On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:21 , Galen Charlton wrote: > Hi, > > The Evergreen Oversight Board has been working with Tony Sebro, an > attorney for the Software Freedom Conservancy, on a policy for the use > of Evergreen's word and logo trademarks. On Wednesday, 12 September, > the Oversight Board voted to recommend the proposed policy to > community and other interested parties for consideration and feedback. > > The text of the proposed policy can be found at > > http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=governance:trademark-policy > > Here's some historical background. Since the beginning of the > project, the Evergreen trademarks have been held and administered by > the University System of Georgia Board of Regents on behalf of GPLS > and the Evergreen Project in general. After the Evergreen Project > joined the Software Freedom Conservancy, the Conservancy at the > request of the Oversight Board and general community sentiment entered > into negotiations with the BOR to transfer the trademark to the SFC. > By August 8th, the Conservancy and the Board of Regents executed a > trademark assignment agreement, meaning that the Conservancy now holds > the Evergreen trademarks on behalf of the Evergreen Project. > > The purpose of the the trademark policy is to permit appropriate of > the Evergreen logo and word marks to refer to the free and open source > software we've all worked hard to create, support, and use while > protecting the trademark from misuse or appropriation. The policy is > not meant to be a burden on any reasonable use of the trademarks, but > for historical reasons that should be well known to anybody who has > followed the development of open source ILSs, it is crucial that the > trademark be held in community hands and protected to avoid any > potential confusion about what Evergreen is. > > The community review period will extend though October 13, 2012, after > which the Board will vote on whether to adopt the policy, along with > any revisions that arise from community feedback. I would request > that general feedback take place on the open-ils-general mailing list, > but if there are any parties that currently use the Evergreen > trademark who have specific questions regarding whether their use of > the marks will be permitted under the policy, they should also feel > free to contact the Oversight Board directly. In particular, as a > specific issue that is known to affect current users of the trademark, > the trademark policy requires that if an entity uses Evergreen as part > of their name, any graphical logos representing that entity *must* use > the Evergreen logo to avoid creating a competing graphic mark. > > Upon adoption of the policy, there will be a period of three months > for users of the trademarks to come into compliance with the policy. > I should emphasize that while the Oversight Board and the Conservancy > is obligated to actively defend the trademark and adhere to the policy > in order to retain it on behalf of the project, we are committed to > working to resolve any issues with current uses of the mark in a > friendly fashion. > > Regards, > > Galen > -- > Galen Charlton > Director of Implementation > Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts > email: [email protected] > direct: +1 770-709-5581 > cell: +1 404-984-4366 > skype: gmcharlt > web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ > Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & > http://evergreen-ils.org Alexey Lazar PALS Information System Developer and Integrator 507-389-2907 http://www.mnpals.org/
