Re: trademarks [was Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15]

2006-02-28 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 09:41 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: On 2/27/06, Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps - this has been discussed on the Board for years. As I understand it, the guidance from legal consultations so far has not helped sketch out such a guideline, and I was

Re: trademarks [was Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15]

2006-02-28 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
On 2/28/06, Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that going over https would make it any more legally binding... If I said https, then I'd agree with you, but I didn't. I said secure, but perhaps that was the wrong word. The semantic I'm looking for is there is some way to verify

Re: trademarks [was Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15]

2006-02-28 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:41 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: On 2/28/06, Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that going over https would make it any more legally binding... If I said https, then I'd agree with you, but I didn't. I said secure, but perhaps that was the wrong

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 2/24/06, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mercredi 22 février 2006 à 12:12 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:24 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Axis Informática * We are fine with giving them permission to sell products with the

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-27 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
On 2/27/06, Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can't have it both ways. Either we keep the GNOME trademarks, which requires us to enforce them, or we abandon them. That's probably not entirely true. The Foundation can probably come up with a set of TM guidelines where - in certain

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-27 Thread Bill Haneman
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 13:26, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: On 2/27/06, Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can't have it both ways. Either we keep the GNOME trademarks, which requires us to enforce them, or we abandon them. That's probably not entirely true. The Foundation can

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Neary
Selon Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 13:05, Luis Villa wrote: ... we didn't sign anything, should we? It's a bit surprising since we have this in the trademark usage guidelines: Do not use GNOME logos unless you have explicit written permission to do

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Neary
Ooops... that wasn't supposed to happen. Selon Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 13:05, Luis Villa wrote: ... http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/ ... This is one of the things I want to kill, FWIW. We can't have it both ways. Either we keep the

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-27 Thread Bill Haneman
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 13:48, Dave Neary wrote: ... I think it'd be a good idea to get a proper legal opinion on defending our marks, and setting up our trademark policy to be as liberal as possible without losing them. I agree. I thought this had already happened, and the lawyers had

trademark [was Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15]

2006-02-27 Thread Luis Villa
On 2/27/06, Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 13:48, Dave Neary wrote: ... I think it'd be a good idea to get a proper legal opinion on defending our marks, and setting up our trademark policy to be as liberal as possible without losing them. I agree. I

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-26 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 22 février 2006 à 12:12 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:24 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Axis Informática * We are fine with giving them permission to sell products with the GNOME Logo. does this mean we can give them the

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-24 Thread Quim Gil
The Advisory Board info at http://foundation.gnome.org/about/ needs an update as well. En/na Federico Mena Quintero ha escrit: Advisory Board: * welcome to new members. * Inform about the new board members: names and functions -- Quim Gil - http://desdeamericaconamor.org

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-23 Thread Quim Gil
En/na Claudio Saavedra ha escrit: I am looking forward to get one in GUADEC if I can go, so it would be certainly a good idea if they have a stand during the conference. This is doable. The GUADEC organisation can provide a space to sell T-Shirts and merchandising, next to the sponsors

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-22 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:24 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Axis Informática * We are fine with giving them permission to sell products with the GNOME Logo. does this mean we can give them the 'go ahead' for adding the products to their site? * Need to find the

Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-21 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/02/15 == Attendance: Anne Dave Federico Jonathan Luis (+15 min) No attendance: Jeff Vincent (regrets) ACTIONS === * Jeff to organize and contact people in various countries and regions to act as local press