Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

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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