Hola Sean! Today I did not reply to your last comments on #sugar-meeting:
<SeanDaly> bernie: i'm concerned too about some Asian OEM taking our marks and starting a parallel project with the marks, but totally different SW <SeanDaly> the GPL succeeded because was nearly bulletproof - only TiVo poked a hole <SeanDaly> you think i'm cautious, you should have seen rms and Eben Moglen - watch my films here: http://www.fsfe.org/projects/gplv3/europe-gplv3-conference.en.html#materials Your concerns are important to me too. I 100% agree that we should have legal defense measures in place for the time when we'll actually need them. My other concern is (was) that we may shy away many valuable contributors in the process of establishing effective protections. Hopefully, we can achieve *both* goals if hide the actual legal mumbo-jumbo behind good communication of our moral intent. Ubuntu is an example of how this could be achieved. Actually, in some cases they were even able to merge the ethical and legal sides into one human-readable text: https://edge.launchpad.net/codeofconduct/1.1 This is a Contributor License Agreement rather than a Trademark policy, but you get the idea. The legal protection is probably the same, but it doesn't piss off contributors as much as a full blown contract full of weird clauses. At least, I remember myself being seriously annoyed when I had to sign the FSF copyright assignment and the Fedora CLA. But not at all when I signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct... It's easy to see why by comparing the contracts. This was just to explain my motivation... I think our current compromise is a good one: explain our motivation and spirit in the preamble of the TM policy, clearly invite anyone interested to apply for a license, and make the procedure for approving requests as streamlined and quick as possible. Mel and I agreed on some specific wording on irc after you had dropped off. I think she's going to update the draft in the wiki so next week we can bring them up as motions in the next slobs meeting. Cheers from Paraguay! -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
