I think this makes a lot of sense from a legal perspective (IANAL). My only concern is: how legally binding is asking this question on sage-devel with a 5-day turnaround?
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:08 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jason Grout > <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> On 5/31/12 2:15 PM, Keshav Kini wrote: >>> >>> Harald Schilly<harald.schi...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>> On Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:07:46 PM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote: >>>> >>>> ...move to some >>>> other umbrella control (perhaps FSF, or maybe not, or maybe something >>>> separate like the http://oeisf.org/). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> What about http://sfconservancy.org/ ? >>>> >>>> This is separate from this trademark question here, but thinking about a >>>> better >>>> "umrella" in the long term might be a good thing. Also, what about the >>>> trademark in the EU, etc. >>> >>> >>> Don't we already have a Sage Foundation? There is `a wiki page`_, but it >>> seems to be a proposal rather than information about a currently >>> existing organization. I'm sure I've heard people referring to the Sage >>> Foundation as something that exists, though. >>> >>> ... _a wiki page: http://wiki.sagemath.org/Foundation >> >> >> The Sage Foundation is also through UW (IIRC), so I guess that is one more >> reason to let UW control the Sage trademark... > > Yep, the Sage Foundation is an account at Univ of Washington. It > contains a not insignificant amount of money, and receives regular > tax-deductible donations from a range of sources, e.g., people who > visit this web site [1]. > > This message was brought to you buy the Sage Foundation. Now back to > our regularly scheduled programming... > > [1] > https://online.gifts.washington.edu/secure/makeagift/checkout_addAmountRecurring.aspx?page=make&Code=MATSAG > >> >> Jason >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
