I am not sure what you want to do with "Open for Business".
Trademarks are specific graphic images.
As a slogan, it can still be used but it may not be protected as a
trademark.
Certainly many governments use "Open for Business" as a slogan to
indicate that they are business friendly.
I am not a lawyer but I don't see any need to remove it from any pages
as long as we understand that it may be used by others for uses
unrelated to OFBiz.
For example,
I can write that my software is "Microsoft compatible" but I can not use
the Microsoft trademark on my brochures without permission.
I can put "Open for Business" on my web site to announce that a new
service is now available but I can not use the OFBiz graphic if it is an
OFBiz trademark.
Ron
On 09/01/2015 6:44 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
+1 to all your points and proposals: thank you Sharan for the valuable
initiative.
Jacopo
On Jan 9, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Sharan-F <sharan.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone
I’m currently doing some work around the project branding and have found out
that the official project name that has been trademarked is Apache OFBiz and
OFBiz.
The full list of Apache Trademarks can be found here
http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/list/
<http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/list/>
Although originally OFBiz was just an abbreviation for "Open for Business"
now OFBiz is the only official name of our project.
The words “Open For Business” have not been Apache trademarked. I think this
may have been because there are a range of existing organisations that use
these words as part of their description and also "The Open For Business
Project" is quite a long name and Apache projects tend to prefer short word
names.
So what does this mean? – Firstly I think we need to look at modifying our
official logo as this still includes the text "The Open For Business
Project". This logo is used in our website and also in all of our releases.
Then we will also need to do a full review of our website and wiki to
replace any references to "Open for Business" with OFBiz.
I also plan to do a review of OFBiz integrator / developer websites to
ensure that they include the correct attribution for Apache OFBiz and
associated trademarks.
Thanks
Sharan
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