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.

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: 1. Publish the TM policy on the website in the manner described above. 2. 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.

Best, -Tony -- Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy +1-212-461-3245 x11 tony@...41... www.sfconservancy.org