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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>thank you very much for all the inputs.</p>
<p>I am not completely aware of the current legal situation, so
please tell me if there's a collision with my ideas and the status
quo.</p>
<p>I think what we want is to have .qgis.* domains to be "public
service". What we want is</p>
<p>.qgis.[country tld] to be representative for a local user group</p>
<p> - Advertise (local) events<br>
- Advertise (local) businesses (plural ;) )<br>
- Be in the local language(s)<br>
- Contain other country specific information</p>
<p>.qgis.[other tld] to be for community driven projects. Examples
(totally made up)<br>
</p>
<p> - .qgis.tutorials : offer a collection of tutorials (community
driven)<br>
- .qgis.showoff : offer a collection of nice maps<br>
- .qgis.commercial : a list of commercial service providers
(e.g. forward to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html">https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html</a>)<br>
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<p>Would it be ok to have the rules for .qgis.[tld] domains:<br>
</p>
<p>- it needs to be registered via (and ownership left with) the
qgis project<br>
- exception: country specific tld may be owned by the (official)
user group<br>
- any .qgis.* domain needs to be community driven (i.e. not
advertise a single particular business)</p>
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Normally, one would first contact the PSC with a proposal and upon
acceptance build the service.<br>
<br>
I hope there are some good approaches in there<br>
Matthias<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/12/2018 12:37 PM, Paolo Cavallini
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Il 12/04/2018 11:07, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto:
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<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net">rdmailings@duif.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net"><mailto:rdmailings@duif.net></a>> wrote:
On 12-04-18 10:35, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
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> Sorry, but this is not yet clear: let's make an example and say that a
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glad there is so much interest, and thing get moving.
My conclusions so far:
* Richard, could you please the last Q/A entry from the trademark page?
* I think it is fair to enforcing our policy of no unfair use of our name
* I agree with Richard that it will be difficult to legally pursue all
cases, but I don't think this should stop us; I'm sure in most cases a
kind letter asking to correct contentious cases will be enough; for the
remaining ones we can seek advice from FSF or others (otherwise why we
did the trademark at all?)
* therefore I'd like to send a letter to both qgis.pro and qgis.online ,
to be reused in all similar cases, kindly asking to stop using QGIS name
for their domains, stating clearly on their pages that they have no
affiliation with the project, and inviting them to collaborate with our
team.
I would like to reach a conclusion in a reasonable time frame, so please
others speak out.
All the best.
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