Re: Misuse of the ASF's OFBiz trademark

2017-01-04 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > > 1. [...] HotWax Systems, which violates the Apache trademark by owning the > top level domain ‘ofbiz.us’ [1] (Us OFBiz) since 2010. 2. [...] several ‘ofbiz-community’ top level domains [2] which don’t > (re)direct

Re: Misuse of the ASF's OFBiz trademark

2017-01-03 Thread Vice President, Brand Management
(Moving dev@/user@ to bcc: to avoid mixing public/private lists) A few clarifications: - The ASF has a policy for the use of domain names that include Apache trademarks, which I would suggest people review when using any domain names that include "ofbiz" or other Apache project names:

Re: Misuse of the ASF's OFBiz trademark

2017-01-03 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi Jacopo, To me your email comes across as from a group of OFBiz contributors not protecting the interest of the ASF (and/or the Apache OFBiz project), but rather as a means to protect the (personal) interests of several OFBiz PMC members and other privileged OFBiz contributors (those with only