[fab] Trademark in other projects

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Jul 23 14:41:23 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:47 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 19:14 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > Here's a great example of a project policing its mark: Jabber.
> > 
> > http://www.jabber.org/trademark/
> > 
> > Anything we can learn?
> 
> 1.  The paragraphs on fair use are of particular interest; you can do
> things like print T-shirts saying "Go Jabber(R)!" without asking, as
> long as you don't denigrate the product or community.  (This is a clause
> we will absolutely need in any further licensing of the Fedora marks.)

Do we really want to keep satirical and/or negative works out?

I mean if someone wanted to use the fedora logo on a shirt at cafe press
so it said:

Fedora Sucks

Do we really want to quash that?

-sv





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