On 2011-01-19 13:34:30 (+0100), Juergen Weigert
On Jan 19, 11 06:52:45 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Novell owns the registered openSUSE trademark. Novell permits and encourages the usage of the official openSUSE artwork Any 'foundation' probably won't be able to be named 'openSUSE' if I read the ownership of that name/trademark correctly. You may "read" it correctly; but there is no reason to believe that. Unless Novell grants permission to use the trademark for the Foundation name, or Novell would be willing to transfer the trademark to the Foundation, your reading is correct. I'd like to hear what the chances are, that one of the two happens, so that the foundation can be appropriatly named.
We already have an agreement from Novell that the openSUSE trademarks will be licensed to the openSUSE Foundation. It's not written down at this point, but we already have an informal OK ;)
Not calling it 'The openSUSE Foundation' just because of trademark reasons makes Novell appear to be spoiling the game. This is something Novell cannot possibly want.
Indeed, and it seems like that's what Novell is thinking too ;)
I don't expect an answer to this question while the merger is ongoing.
The informal OK was received before the merger started.
Of course, it'll only be carved into stone once we'll have the
bylaws and a foundation and a formal copyright licensing etc...
But no reason to panic about that right now :)
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser