Registered Trademarks and Company names in Documentation

2010-12-12 Thread Andre Klapper
Do we have to mark company names and registered third-party symbols handled like Microsoft Exchange with something like ® or ™? Is there any guideline for this on the wiki? andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper ___

Evolution user manual relicensing [was: Re: Evolution documentation update]

2010-12-12 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 21.09.2010, 09:46 +0530 schrieb Bharath Acharya: After the FAQ, it'd be great to revisit the topics in the existing documentation and filter it into the new format. There is a lot of goodness in the existing documentation (2.32) which can be inherited. Work is ongoing to

Re: Registered Trademarks and Company names in Documentation

2010-12-12 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 20:19 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: Do we have to mark company names and registered third-party symbols handled like Microsoft Exchange with something like ® or ™? IIRC (IANAL), we have no legal obligation to mark anybody's trademarks. I think we shouldn't bother with them

Re: Registered Trademarks and Company names in Documentation

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Cutler
I'll have to find the thread from last year where I asked this question - IIRC, we did check with Luis who said we didn't ahve to. (This was in regards to the Banshee docs I was writing and the word iPod). --Paul On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun,

Re: Evolution user manual relicensing [was: Re: Evolution documentation update]

2010-12-12 Thread Paul Cutler
Hi Andre, CC-BY 3.0 is incompatible with the GPL. I spoke with Michael Meeks about this at GUADEC this year and he had no issues on behalf of Novell of using a CC license. They're both copyleft. Re-licensing may be a challenge, but I'll ask the question. Paul On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:28 PM,