Re: trademark committee
On 2003-09-21 03:20:46 +0100 Benj. Mako Hill <mako@debian.org> wrote:
was concerned that the attorney client relationship (Greg's firm is
engaging SPI as a client) meant that we might want to not have the
discussion itself open to the world.
Of course, this may well be the case, but then there should be a
public discussion too where the committee members can keep the masses
informed and seek opinions..
Since I certainly was terse last time, I want to emphasize that the
committee is open for other people to join.
The SPI resolution is somewhat hazy on amount of work. I am reluctant
to be dead-weight. As long as any representatives of the project are
committed to being representative of the project, I have faith in
them. It would be good if they would start talking to -project and/or
-legal about what's going on, though. Maybe mention which lists are
to be used to -devel-announce or -announce.
Personally, I would be happy to abandon the trademark, or use
trademark law with some legal judo akin to copyleft, but the advice
may be that using this harsh tool in a draconian manner is the only
way to avoid misrepresentation without using poorly-internationalised
defamation laws.
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