On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:28 -0400, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 22:18 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
I think the first thing that we need to determine is who owns them now.
Well, who came up with them isn't necessarily quite the same as who "owns" them, from the perspective of a trademark, which is effectively what we need to be thinking about here.
True, but I think in this case probably the closest thing we'll have to traceability is who created them.
The logo, I think there is probably a few people owning Copyright there. I remember coming into IRC and Mental showing me the logo, but I don't really know what went on before that. Also, with the latest revamp of the logo, who did that? Was it Andy?
All four of us worked on the logo; Andy, Bryce and I did the revamp.
So, perhaps we need to get everyone involved to sign over their copyright to the foundation? Does that make sense?
We probably do need to think about asserting trademark on the name and logo, probably with some permissive policy as Linus has done for the Linux trademark.
One thing we would need to show is that we are using the trademark in commerce somehow, at least in a token way.
I've talked with SFC about setting up the Cafepress store. They're looking into as other groups have asked about it also. I think that should be sufficient, if we sold "Inkscape merchandise". Perhaps we could put the software on CD there also -- don't know who'd buy it, but it'd be available. I guess, probably your store would already be sufficient.
--Ted