[Qgis-psc] Trademark issues

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi,

I'd like to thank everybody or all the inputs,

The FAQ paragraph is now removed from the TM page and leaves us with:

"Examples of use requiring a permission:
....
....
If you use QGIS trademark in a domain name, with or without commercial
intent".
which is IMHO pretty strict for now but good until we vote a definitive
scheme.

As discussed in the last PSC meeting I started reviewing the TM page and
asked Simone Aliprandi (IIRC he was the one who did the TM application)
and asked him to also have a read.

I'll then propose a concrete guideline on how to deal with this problem
to be voted on.


Cheers

Marco


On 12.04.2018 13:18, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote:
> 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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