[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Discover Debian's hassle-free trademarks, use them to promote Debian

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:

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> As usual, debian/rules
> Lesson to be learned, IMHO, also for us.
> I think we should start seriosly protecting our brand.
> Thoughts?
>

Yeah - I don't know if you have been following the whole python europe
trademark debacle. We should definately take steps to get the QGIS name and
logo trademarked....

Tim


> All the best.
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> Oggetto: Discover Debian's hassle-free trademarks, use them to promote
> Debian
> Rispedito-Data: Fri,  1 Mar 2013 17:09:36 +0000 (UTC)
> Rispedito-Da: debian-news at lists.debian.org
> Data: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 18:09:12 +0100
> Mittente: Francesca Ciceri <madamezou at debian.org>
> A: debian-news at lists.debian.org
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> The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
> Discover Debian's hassle-free trademarks, use them to promote Debian
>                                                         press at debian.org
> March 1st, 2013                 http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130301
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> The Debian Project is pleased to announce that, according to the terms
> of the new trademark policy [1], Debian logos and marks may now be used
> freely [2] for both non-commercial and commercial purposes. The Debian
> Project encourages wide use of its marks in all ways that promote Debian
> and free software.
>
>     1: http://www.debian.org/trademark#policy
>     2: http://www.debian.org/intro/free
>
> Stefano Zacchiroli, current Debian Project Leader and one of the main
> promoters of the new trademark policy, said "Software freedoms and
> trademarks are a difficult match. We all want to see well-known project
> names used to promote free software, but we cannot risk they will be
> abused to trick users into downloading proprietary spyware. With the
> help of SPI [3] and SFLC [4], we have struck a good balance in our new
> trademark policy. Among other positive things, it allows all sorts of
> commercial use; we only recommend clearly informing customers about how
> much of the sale price will be donated to Debian."
>
>     3: http://www.spi-inc.org/
>     4: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
>
> As the arrival of the new stable release, Debian 7.0 "Wheezy",
> approaches, vendors are encouraged to create Wheezy-themed merchandise
> (t-shirts, stickers, mugs, etc.), using the upcoming release's
> artwork [5].
>
>     5: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
>
> We further invite you to check out the current list of Debian
> merchandise vendors [6], and see the information at the bottom of the
> page if you would like to be added to it.
>
>     6: http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise
>
>
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> community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the
> largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
> volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain
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