Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15
- From: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
- To: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- Cc: Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>, foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:41:18 +0100
Selon Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>:
> 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 so."
> > >
> > > http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/
> > >
> > > We should probably fix this :-)
> >
> > This is one of the things I want to kill, FWIW.
> >
> > Luis
>
> We can't have it both ways. Either we keep the GNOME trademarks, which
> requires us to enforce them, or we abandon them.
>
> We (the Foundation membership) have the right to do either I suppose,
> but there does not seem to be a good middle ground, if we do not enforce
> the trademark, then anyone who wants to use the GNOME logos for any
> purpose, even one that is potentially damaging to GNOME, can do so. To
> take an extreme case, someone could even make a release and call it
> "Official GNOME" and we could not stop them.
>
> Bill
>
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Dave Neary
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