[Qgis-psc] Trademark issues

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi all,

thank you very much for all the inputs.

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.

I think what we want is to have .qgis.* domains to be "public service".
What we want is

.qgis.[country tld] to be representative for a local user group

  - Advertise (local) events
  - Advertise (local) businesses (plural ;) )
  - Be in the local language(s)
  - Contain other country specific information

.qgis.[other tld] to be for community driven projects. Examples (totally
made up)

  - .qgis.tutorials : offer a collection of tutorials (community driven)
  - .qgis.showoff : offer a collection of nice maps
  - .qgis.commercial : a list of commercial service providers (e.g.
forward to https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html)

Would it be ok to have the rules for .qgis.[tld] domains:

- it needs to be registered via (and ownership left with) the qgis project
- exception: country specific tld may be owned by the (official) user group
- any .qgis.* domain needs to be community driven (i.e. not advertise a
single particular business)


Normally, one would first contact the PSC with a proposal and upon
acceptance build the service.

I hope there are some good approaches in there
Matthias

On 04/12/2018 12:37 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Il 12/04/2018 11:07, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto:
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde
>> <rdmailings at duif.net <mailto: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
> 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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