- Inkscape Board of Directors

VOTE: finalizing adoption of Inkscape TM policy
by Bryce Harrington 20 May '13

20 May '13

All board members are requested to vote YEA or NAY on adoption of the attached Trademark Policy for Inkscape. All votes must be posted to this mailing list to be counted. This is a simple majority vote, but for something like this I should expect us to be in consensus, so if you vote NAY please provide your rationale so we can all consider those thoughts. Please have your final vote in by Monday May 20th. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> ----- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 15:57:51 -0400 From: Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> To: inkscape@...41... Subject: finalizing adoption of Inkscape TM policy Hi, all. During the last thread on this topic, it seemed as if you had reached some consensus about Inkscape's TM policy, and the conversation shifted towards identifying those who own copyrights in the Mountain Graphic logo. So, I send this as follow up to ask your committee to make a final decision re: the language of an Inkscape TM policy. I've attached the latest version of the policy for your review. Based on your collective feedback, the current version grants more freedom re: modifying and creating derivative works using the logo, and only expressly forbids use of the Logo as a logo for an unrelated product or service. Note: Ponyscape would still technically violate this policy, but we're still free to grant them a written exception. *As a next step:* please vote to approve the policy as a committee. If it's approved, I'll then find a solution re: determining the ownership of copyrights in the Mountain Graphic logo. If the policy isn't approved, then let me know what you'd like to see changed. Thanks! -Tony -- Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy +1-212-461-3245 x11 tony@...41... www.sfconservancy.org Inkscape TRADEMARK USAGE POLICY 1 Purpose Software Freedom Conservancy (???Conservancy???) has adopted this Policy to make sure that the identity of the Inkscape graphics editor and its free and open source nature is clear to everyone. By using this Policy, the Inkscape Project can spread the use of Inkscape while making sure that the mark is protected in a way that's consistent with U.S. trademark law. This Policy is written to allow all clear and appropriate use of the Inkscape marks while preventing abusive use of them in ways that could confuse users as to where the software came from. By adhering to this Policy, you help to promote to the public the freedom to use and develop the Inkscape Project's software. The Inkscape Project is a member project of Conservancy. The Conservancy holds rights in the Marks in accordance with its non-profit mission on behalf of the Inkscape Project. Throughout this Policy, the word "Marks" refers to the following: * the terms "Inkscape," "Inkscapers," and "Live Path Effects" * the Mountain Graphic Logo ("Inkscape Logo"), depicted here: [FIXME: insert URL] [here, we want to include all logos and graphic word marks. Ideally, we want to display embedded image files and/or post a hyperlink to where the images can be viewed or downloaded] * the slogan "Draw Freely" [here, we want to include all slogans or tag lines associated with the XYZ software] This Policy is only concerned with Marks associated with the Inkscape Project, and does not address any copyrights associated with Inkscape software. 2 Guidelines for using the Marks 2.1 Trademark symbol on first mention The first prominent mention of the name should be immediately followed by a symbol for trademark: "^tm". For example: "Inkscape^tm". This requirement is waived in all contexts where such marks are not normally included: email, online discussion, non-graphical advertisements (when permitted), and academic papers. We encourage the use of the symbol whenever possible, but recognize that many non-commercial and informal uses will omit it. 2.2 Use of the Marks without written permission You may use the Marks without prior written permission (subject to the other sections): 1. To refer to the Inkscape software in substantially unmodified form. "Substantially unmodified" means built from the source code provided by the Inkscape Project, possibly with minor modifications including but not limited to: the enabling or disabling of certain features by default, translations into other languages, changes required for compatibility with a particular operating system distribution, or the inclusion of bug-fix patches). 2. To identify Inkscape software as a distinct component of a software offering. 3. To factually refer to the Inkscape Project itself, its products, or its protocols. In addition, you may use the Marks to refer to products, services, or communities outside of the Inkscape software and Inkscape Project without written permission in the following contexts: 4. When referring to Inkscape software that is not substantially unmodified, to say that the such software is a "derivative of" or "based on" Inkscape. 5. When referring to communities of users in the context of their use of the Inkscape software, e.g., virtual communities, community-moderated online forums, consortia of organizational users, etc., provided that the Marks are not used to suggest endorsement of any user community by the Inkscape Project. We do not charge a fee for a license to use the Marks in these contexts. However, we do of course welcome donations. If you're interested in donating to the Inkscape Project, care of Conservancy, visit http://inkscape.org/donate.php. Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) public charity. 2.3 Using the Marks as part of a product name You may use the Marks as part of the name of a product designed to work with Inkscape, so long as the name as a whole (via its other components) clearly and unambiguously distinguishes the product from Inkscape software itself, and the general presentation of the product does not imply any official association or identity with the Inkscape Project. Because it would be awkward to attach a trademark symbol to a portion of a larger name whose other portions might themselves be trademarked, the requirement to display the symbol is waived for this circumstance. 2.4 Prohibited usages of the Marks You may not use the Marks in the following ways: * In any way likely to cause confusion as to the identity of the Inkscape Project, the provenance of its software, or the software's license. * In any way that indicates a greater degree of association between you and the Inkscape Project than actually exists. * In any way that implies a designated successor to Inkscape (e.g., "Inkscape++" is not permitted). * In any way that indicates that Inkscape favors one distribution, platform, product, etc. over another except where explicitly indicated in writing by Inkscape. 2.5 Limitations to this Policy This Policy does not confer any rights to use the trademarks ???Software Freedom Conservancy,??? ???Conservancy,??? or to use any other trademarks other than the Marks listed in Section 1. This Policy does not authorize you to act as an agent for Conservancy, enter into any agreement on behalf of or otherwise create any liability for the Inkscape Project or Conservancy. 2.6 Guidelines for using the Inkscape Logo The copyright associated with the Inkscape Logo are licensed under the Creative Commons license Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license. The Inkscape Project encourages artists to use, modify, and create derivative works of the Inkscape Logo. That being said, the Inkscape Logo also serves as a graphic Mark for the Inkscape Project. To prevent the creation of separate depictions of the Inkscape Logo that would intentionally or inadvertently compete with and dilute our Mark, we ask that when using the Logo to refer to the Inkscape Project and/or to the Inkscape software, you use the Logo in compliance with the general usage guidelines provided in this Policy. We also ask that you not use the Inkscape Logo, or any portion of the Inkscape Logo, as part of a trademark, logo, or brand to be associated with any other product, service, or entity other than Inkscape. For example, an artists is welcome to create a derivative work using the Inkscape Logo; however, a ficticious trucking company does not have permission to use that derivative work as its corporate logo. The Inkscape Project and Conservancy reserve the right to prohibit the use of the Logos in a manner inconsistent with these guidelines that would weaken or dilute the Inkscape Logo, create a likelihood of confusion, or otherwise infringe upon the trademark rights of Conservancy and the Inkscape Project in the Inkscape Logo. 2.7 Use of the Marks in merchandising You may create and sell merchandise using the Inkscape name and the Inkscape Logo without additional permission provided that you use only unmodified graphics from the logo page on the Inkscape website. Please contact us if you would like to sell any other merchandise containing the Marks. This section is subject to the other provisions contained in this Policy, including those regarding permissions required for usage and using the Marks as part of a product name. 3 Rights reserved by Conservancy Conservancy reserves the sole right to: * Determine compliance with this Policy. * Modify this Policy in ways consistent with its mission of protecting the public. * Grant exceptions to this Policy, of any kind and for any reason whatsoever, other clauses notwithstanding. 4 Questions This Policy is designed to keep Inkscape's Marks safe in order to protect this software's reputation, earned by the contributions of the Inkscape Project to the [free and] open source software community. If you see any use of the Marks anywhere that you think violates this Policy or otherwise goes against the spirit of the Inkscape Project and Conservancy's mission, please bring it to Conservancy's attention by contacting us at [TRADEMARK@...58...]. If you have questions about using the Marks, or if you think you should be able to use the Marks for any purpose not allowed by this Policy and would like permission for that use, please contact Inkscape by emailing [TRADEMARK@...58...] or by writing to Inkscape Project c/o Software Freedom Conservancy, 137 Montague St. Ste 380, Brooklyn, NY 11201-3548. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.49 Release? Is Inkscape Development Frozen?
by Johan Engelen 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.49 Release? Is Inkscape Development Frozen? Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:29:33 +0000 From: Dave Crossland <dave@...57...> It seems to me that LGM would be an ideal place to try to raise funds for Inkscape to get shipped in Q2 rather than Q3/4 Hi all, With the funds that we have, it feels very awkward to me to do any kind of fund raising. If at all we want to hire (and can find) someone to fix the remaining issues, we can pay that from the funds that we have. regards, Johan

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Travel funding request - Libre Graphics meeting in Madrid
by Tavmjong Bah 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi, I will be going to the Libre Graphics meeting in Madrid next month to give two 20 minute presentations. The first is on all the exciting improvements we have sitting in trunk and the second on the SVG standardization process and how it can be influenced by open-source projects. I would like to ask the board for help in funding my trip. The airfare will most likely be covered by the conference organizers (if they have raised enough cash) so I am asking for funding to cover the hotel and other incidentals. The hotel for three nights would be about 200 euros and other costs (train to/from airport, meals) another 100. I had mentioned earlier that I would like funding to attend an SVG working group meeting this year. I have found that one can have a big impact when one is present in person. Unfortunately, it looks like that all three of this years meetings will be half-way around the world from me (Sydney, Tokyo, and Beijing). I am tempted to try to go to the Tokyo meeting. This would be a fairly expensive trip ($1000 for airfare, $500 for food/hotels) but I would probably be willing to contribute myself as it has been more than 10 years since I've been to Japan (I lived there for four years and made frequent visits for another four). I am interested in knowing the boards thoughts about support for such a trip. BTW, did we fund anybody to go to SCALE? Tav

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Re: [Inkscape-board] drafting the Representation of the FSA
by Tavmjong Bah 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Should we begin this discussion? I can put together an email for the developers list (but probably not till next week). Tav On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 18:27 -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:16:35AM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > >>> Once that's done, let's work together on the Representation section. > > I wrote on 22 February: > > We should probably begin work on this as soon as you all are ready. > > Will Inkscape folks be at SCALE this weekend to discuss? > > I had a good conversation with Josh and Jon at SCALE, and also had a > good discussion previously at GSoC Mentor Summit with Tav. > > Based on these discussions, I have a suggestion: perhaps it would make > sense to start a thread on the public Inkscape developers list about the > FSA's Representation section and what leadership provisions the > community would like to see about it. I'd be happy to subscribe to the > list temporarily and participate in the discussion as well, if you'd > like me to. > > Conservancy would like the Representation section to really represent > the natural leadership structure of the Inkscape community. The one we > have now was written very long ago, and I presume there have been > changes in how the community works since then. Perhaps it's therefore a > good time to go back to the developer community as a whole and consider > it? > > This is, of course, just a suggestion. It's really up to this Committee > to decide on what Representation section it wants in the new Fiscal > Sponsorship Agreement, and Conservancy will guide the drafting of it. > > Regardless of how you'd like to proceed, I hope we can get moving on > this last little bit and get the FSA updated. > > Let me know what you decide. If you want to start a public discussion, > it might help to point people to the possible structures found in the > template: > http://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf > http://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/conservancy-fsa-template.tex > > although those are by no means exhaustive.

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[399373@...56...: [Bug 399373] [NEW] Illegal selling and creative claims on your free Bible software!]
by Bryce Harrington 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Anyone else aware of this company selling Inkscape? ----- Forwarded message from Launchpad Bug Tracker <399373@...56...> ----- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:12:55 -0000 From: Launchpad Bug Tracker <399373@...56...> To: bryce@...24... Subject: [Bug 399373] [NEW] Illegal selling and creative claims on your free Bible software! Reply-To: Bug 399373 <399373@...56...> *** This bug is a security vulnerability *** You have been subscribed to a private security bug by JazzyNico (jazzynico): Illegal selling and creative claims on your free Inkscape software! I cannot find any other means whereby I can report these illegal activities to you! Are you aware that http://FreeSoftwareCD.net and http://www.cdearth.com is trying to sell your free Inkscape software as "GraphicDesign Studio"? In their policies if someone orders two other software titles for free then they could be charged for your free software. The website does not refer people from their site to your site directly. Therefore they are deceiving and lying to people about who makes the software, and they are not referring people directly to your website so they can download your software for free! The site also charges for shipping of the CDs. I ordered their "free" CDs, and when I received them and found out the software was free they made me pay for return shipping, threatening that if I did not send back the CDs paying for the extra postal service of "Delivery Confirmation" that the CDs could be lost and they would then charge me $14.99 for each CD that is not returned. The company DECEIVED and LIED to me and told me that the software was worth 80% more than they were charging. This is a lie and a deception seeing the software is available and free for download from you! Please research them thoroughly because I believe they are illegally selling your software under the guise of selling CDs or by forcing payments on people by CLAIMING they did not receive the returned CDs! Thank you! ** Affects: inkscape Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: activity illegal -- Illegal selling and creative claims on your free Bible software! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Inkscape Administrators, which is subscribed to the bug report. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Update of Committee & other matters for Conservancy/Inkscape discussion
by Josh Andler 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Bradley, Jon Cruz & I are the only ones who will be at SCaLE afaik. Jon will only be here for the Expo to the best of my knowledge. Cheers, Josh On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@...41...>wrote: > Sorry for my late reply on this: > > >> Bryce Harrington wrote on Wednesday, 14 November: > >> > Aside from the above, are there any other significant points in the > >> > new template we should consider, particularly ones that would require > >> > voting on? > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:16:35AM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > >> I'd suggest that we do the following: since the 10%-back-to-Conservancy > >> is probably the biggest change, go ahead and finish the vote on that. > > Bryce Harrington wrote on 30 January: > > A majority of board has voted in favor of this 10%. > > Thanks so much. It means a great deal to Conservancy that you are > willing to do this and we much appreciate it. > > >> Once that's done, let's work together on the Representation section. > > We should probably begin work on this as soon as you all are ready. > Will Inkscape folks be at SCALE this weekend to discuss? > > -- > Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy >

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Re: [Inkscape-board] Fwd: SourceForge New Revenue Share Pilot Program
by Josh Andler 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@...41...>wrote: > Josh Andler wrote at 20:22 (EST) on Sunday: > > Additionally, I have no idea if anyone here knows Roberto and might be > > a better person to talk with him. > > Just to give you some backstory: Roberto has been very aggressive in his > inquiries with Conservancy in trying to get Conservancy projects to use > Sourceforge's advertising-based download system. Inkscape is of > particular interest to him in part because you all used to use it and > don't now. > I had a feeling that this might be the case which is why I put that language in. I also figured there was a good chance that you were probably already aware of what he was talking about. Personally, at this point I feel that it's not worth having a conversation with him solely based on us not having our house in order in terms of updating our FSA. In addition to that, a larger board conversation should probably take place in light of the information you provided. When I'm done with the stuff I'm doing for SCaLE. I will just tell him something to the effect of: It's not a good time for us to have a conversation related to this right now but we will keep it in mind if he'd still be interested down the road. Cheers, Josh

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Fwd: SourceForge New Revenue Share Pilot Program
by Josh Andler 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hello Bradley and Board, I received the following email from SourceForge and obviously think it's worth finding out more. However, I'm not confident that I will ask all of the important Q's we need to have answers for. Additionally, I have no idea if anyone here knows Roberto and might be a better person to talk with him. So, if anyone else would like to be the person to talk to him or otherwise has good questions to ask, please let me know. Otherwise I plan to respond on Tuesday to set something up. Cheers, Josh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Roberto Galoppini" <rgaloppini@...55...> Date: Feb 10, 2013 12:31 AM Subject: SourceForge New Revenue Share Pilot Program To: "Roberto Galoppini" <rgaloppini@...55...> Dear Admins, I'm Roberto Galoppini, Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge, and I have some interesting news to share with you. Since 1999 SourceForge has been committed to advancing the open source software community. We host over 300,000 projects and are visited by over 40 MM users per month for free, secure, and fast downloads of open source software. As a trusted partner of the OSS community for over 10 years, the SourceForge team designed an innovative revenue share program to give something back. The Accelerator program rewards high quality OSS project teams for doing great work and serves to accelerate the broader adoption through a global catalog. We want to start investing back in trusted partners like Inkscape and would like to talk to you about some new revenue sharing posibilities for your project. Are you open for a call later next week? Look forward to hear back from you, best regards. -- Roberto Galoppini Senior Director of Business Development, SourceForge phone: +393921256600 email: rgaloppini@...55... skype: r.galoppini This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you. -- ==== This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.

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Board IRC meeting
by Johan Engelen 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi all, Let's do a board meeting? I think a weekend works best because of timezones? The next two weekends I'm on vacation but the one after (23rd Feb) would be ok. for me, two points to discuss: - travel subsidy - merchandise Cheers, Johan

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[tony@...41...: Conservancy-wide discussion re: project merch]
by Bryce Harrington 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

In case anyone's interested in pursuing this... ----- Forwarded message from Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> ----- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:40:31 -0500 From: Tony Sebro <tony@...41...> To: project-reps@...41... Subject: Conservancy-wide discussion re: project merch Hi, all: Several member projects have expressed interest in designing and selling "official" project merchandise (t-shirts, stickers, mugs, etc.). So, we've started a mailing list that will be used for discussions relating to merch, e.g., asking questions, vendor recommendations, strategy comparisons, design feedback. If you or someone from your Project Leadership Committee would like to join the discussion, please subscribe here: http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/merch Best, -Tony -- Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy +1-212-461-3245 x11 tony@...41... www.sfconservancy.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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