Re: GNOME trademark authorization

2016-05-16 Thread John McHugh
I think ebassi has approached this 'problem?' appropriately with the introduction of twig. Attempting to find legal avenues to create a gag order seems a bit... well.. unproductive. On Mon, 16 May 2016 at 17:01 Josh Triplett wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:28:04AM

Re: GNOME trademark authorization

2016-05-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:28:04AM -0400, Dave Neary wrote: > On 05/16/2016 09:41 AM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > > How to avoid any organization or individual, could use GNOME trademark > > to promote against GNOME? > > You cannot use trademark to stop someone from calling a thing by its >

Re: GNOME trademark authorization

2016-05-16 Thread Daniel Espinosa
What about worldofgnome.org? Is not a matter to get it down with a demand. GNOME Foundation have better things to invest to, but what about to work with it/he/she in order to change ideas and the way they are exposed, making then informed and good supported? Having 8k followers and blaming is

Re: GNOME trademark authorization

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Daniel, On 05/16/2016 09:41 AM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > How to avoid any organization or individual, could use GNOME trademark > to promote against GNOME? You cannot use trademark to stop someone from calling a thing by its trademarked name. For example, Mars cannot stop me from calling a

GNOME trademark authorization

2016-05-16 Thread Daniel Espinosa
How to avoid any organization or individual, could use GNOME trademark to promote against GNOME? Is the case of World of GNOME (WOGUE on G+). It recently has pushed blaming, unsupported complaints (no data about his source is based on real data from projects maintainers). While I'm not against