On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:25:41AM -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 08:16 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
SFLC did the work for the trademark for us. etc. etc.
Sorry about meddling, but this must have slipped my attention:
Inkscape has a trademark now? Since when? Who is the owner? What are the rules of use?
Yeah, we have for a few years now (I can get the exact date if needed). We have trademarked the name, logo and the phrase "Draw Freely." It is handled similar to the money where the Conservancy holds it in trust for the project. Same with the domain name, etc. We don't have a formal set of rules of use (long story, perhaps over beer sometime, it'll be better then) but I think we're close. To over simplify a bunch of legal text it is: "Don't pretend to be us, otherwise you're cool." We should have something that'll make lawyers happy soon as well, which should simplify things like the Red Hat folks trying to make stickers.
You know, Alexandre raises a good point that this change hasn't been very widely publicized. I don't think this is anything controversial but makes sense that it should be made more publically visible. Could you and/or he work on a news blurb for the inkscape.org front page that we're in the final stages of this?
Bryce