[Qgis-psc] Trademark issues

[Vincent Picavet (ml)]

Hi,

To be complete on the subject, we should also state what happens for
subdomains.

I think it should be ok to have something like qgis.mycompany.com to
present activities around QGIS.

But maybe not something like "qgis.bestserviceprovider.com".

Vincent


On 12/04/2018 13:04, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> 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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