[Qgis-psc] Trademark issues

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

> On 12-04-18 10:35, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, but this is not yet clear: let's make an example and say that a
> > group of well known and active QGIS core developers (people who gives
> > back to the project, correct?) wanted to  create a company named
> > "QGISGURUS INC." and register a domain named "QGISGURUS.COM
> > <http://QGISGURUS.COM>".
> >
> > What would be the official answer?
> Well in my opinion the official answer will tell you: "don't do it" as
> it is so hard to enforce this kind of trademark infringements for us.
>
>
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).

Or we'd end up just like this:

- qgis.pro that has no history of giving-back will benefit from the TM
- the 4 QGIS gurus that are spending a good part of their life volunteering
for QGIS will not


-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
w3:   www.itopen.it
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