<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net" target="_blank">rdmailings@duif.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 12-04-18 10:35, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:<br>
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> Sorry, but this is not yet clear: let's make an example and say that a<br>
> group of well known and active QGIS core developers (people who gives<br>
> back to the project, correct?) wanted to create a company named<br>
> "QGISGURUS INC." and register a domain named "<a href="http://QGISGURUS.COM" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGISGURUS.COM</a><br>
</span>> <<a href="http://QGISGURUS.COM" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://QGISGURUS.COM</a>>".<br>
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> What would be the official answer?<br>
</span>Well in my opinion the official answer will tell you: "don't do it" as<br>
it is so hard to enforce this kind of trademark infringements for us.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fair enough (and I totally agree), so I would tell the same to other companies instead of just trying to make them contribute (the two are not mutually exclusive of course). <br></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Or we'd end up just like this:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- <a href="http://qgis.pro">qgis.pro</a> that has no history of giving-back will benefit from the TM<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- the 4 QGIS gurus that are spending a good part of their life volunteering for QGIS will not<br><br><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Alessandro Pasotti<br>w3: <a href="http://www.itopen.it" target="_blank">www.itopen.it</a></div>
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