[GRASS-PSC] Definition of a Project

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 13 01:10:43 EDT 2007


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
> Note, legally registering a trademark can be somewhat onerous, but you
> can just assert a trademark ( (tm) instead of (R) ) and that carries
> quite a bit of weight from a legal point of view.  That is what we
> decided to do for "OSGeo".
> 
> If GRASS considers it important, we could look at (tm) issues, or even
> possibly registering the GRASS trademark.  But I'd hesitate before
> getting overly legalistic about this if there isn't really a
> compelling problem.

Would adding (tm) once somewhere low on the GRASS homepage and once in
the 'g.version -c' copyright statement be prudent?


Hamish




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