Trademark license agreement status

[Dimitris Glezos]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Jeff Spaleta<jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen<bob at fedoraunity.org> wrote:
>> I have been attacked, called names and so on in private because I refuse to sign the original document, as a result I have reacted from a personal point of view.
>
> [...]
> I understand that you don't like having the TLA exist at all.  I get
> it.  I think we can all agree that legal issues blow monkey chunks.
> Legal issues which intersect community interests...even more so.     I
> really wish there was a pre-existing copyleft approach to trademark
> that still allowed the trademark to be enforcible for a license. But
> I'm not aware of such a construction.   As it stands right now we have
> to make a choice with regard to keeping the trademark in an
> enforceable state.  I think Glezos summed up the underlying issue. Is
> protecting the trademark long term worth the intangible short term
> cost?  Its a very difficult question.  We seemed to have survived the
> introduction of the CLA for contributors even though there was heat
> when it was introduced.

It seems kinda complex to discuss complex issues over the net. This is
even worse if some things are either already in stone, or kinda
pre-decided.

We're doing all these awesome conferences and activity days every now
and then. Maybe we should schedule a few hours to discuss high-level
Board-like policy-"umph!" issues. So, besides of just running a "Where
are we and where are we going?" session, we'll also allow the board to
answer tough questions from the community (eg. through something like
[1]). I'd settle for a Board Summit once every a couple of years.

-d


[1]: http://moderator.appspot.com/

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