[Qgis-psc] Use of QGIS trademark

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Hi Martin
thanks for your thoughts. My opinions here.

Il 14/01/2014 13:53, Martin Dobias ha scritto:

> 1. how will be the legal entity connected to QGIS project? Will there
> be formal memberships, board (PSC members)?

This will depend on the form we'll take. I suppose PSC will steer the
foundation|association|whatever

> 2. who will be legally allowed to use QGIS trademark?

I think only the project by default; sponsors can be allowed under certain terms

> 3. will we license the trademark to other parties?

we can always do it at will

> 4. what about third parties that have already started to use QGIS name
> (e.g. QGIS cloud, QGIS enterprise) ?

I think this is a very special case, as these are used by core developers and major
project contributors. Same applies to QGIS Android.

> 5. will we ever enforce the trademark use and take legal actions or is
> that just for better protection in case of legal actions against the
> project?

We have prior art de facto rights on the trademark already, so if we want, we could
sue somebody already. I do not think anybody is keen on going this route anyway.
The first and foremost need is to be protected against legal actions against us
(think of the Python case) and more generally against somebody from outside stealing
our brand.
No protection is absolute, but my feeling is that we are a bit overexposed now, given
our popularity.

All the best.


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