On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 03:15:16PM -0400, Tony Sebro wrote:
On 05/28/2013 02:10 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hi Tony, I posted an email the other day with the vote tally, but maybe it was to the wrong alias. Anyway, I voted yea as well, and so we have a majority in favor, and the issue can now be closed. Thanks, Bryce
Yes; I hadn't seen your email at the time I replied to the thread. Bradley has since brought me up to speed. Thanks!
As a next step, the adopted policy should be posted as a new page on the Inkscape.org website. I'd also recommend creating another Q & A under Section 8 ("Legal") of the Wiki FAQ that points visitors to the trademark policy page. Once the policy page is live, I can engage the company that was using the Inkscape trademark.
Josh, can you forward these new requirements to the website guys to implement?
Now, we still have an open issue re: the ownership of the copyrights in the mountain graphic logo. Given that we've been struggling to compile a complete list of copyright owners in the mark, I recommend that we do the following:
- Publish the TM policy on the website in the manner described above.
- Send a notice of the new TM policy to various Inkscape community
user groups and fora (e.g., inkscape-user, inkscape-announce, Inkscapeforum.com, etc.). In the notice, declare our intent to license the copyrights to the logo under CC-By-SA 3.0 US, and give any copyright holders 60 days to step forward and object.
The TM policy (including the section re: logo usage) will be in effect during that 60-day period, but we'd always reserve the right to discuss changing the copyright license if a copyright holder were to step forward and object.
I can provide draft language for the notice. Let me know what else I can do to help the committee finalize the process.
This all sounds fine with me. Ted, IIRC you were the one that got the ball rolling initially on this; can you review and close the loops on any follow up tasks to notify the community and so on?
Bryce
Best, -Tony
-- Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy +1-212-461-3245 x11 tony@...41... www.sfconservancy.org