Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (280 mails)

["Alan Clark" <aclark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 2/10/2011 at 09:35 PM, in message
<AANLkTin_rtvcvDxe8jr6Ownpyq90E6rSVNSXKmCuh4RT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kostas Koudaras
<warlordfff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 2011/2/11 Alan Clark <aclark@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > About that, I will tell you the story and anyone who knows should tell
> > > us (the Greek Community) about it and if we need to ask permission
> > > from Novell. Let me say at that point that we don't have a reason not
> > > to ask permission from Novell if needed, the reason we did not so far
> > > is because we believe we didn't have to.
> > > When we started the Greek community a  few months ago a friend of the
> > > community told us he owned the opensuse.gr domain name and he told us
> > > that he can redirect it wherever we wanted.
> > > The opensuse.gr was for sale when this person bought it legal(under
> > > Greek laws). Now we use that at the moment as re-directions to:
> > > - http://opensuse.gr redirects to http://el.opensuse.org/Main_Page
> > > - http://amb.opensuse.gr redirects to
> > > http://opensuseambassadors.blogspot.com/
> > > - http://own.opensuse.gr redirects to http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news
> > > and we are planning to do also something else those days that we might
> > > use another redirection,but it is mainly planning for now...
> > > Bottom line if in my country I can legally buy a domain name that it
> > > is related to a company which laws are stronger?
> > > We are using this domain name for community causes ONLY anyway so
> > > asking permission and finally getting it we don't think is a problem,
> > > please only those who really know that answer me on that so that I
> > > won't be confused( I get that easily in legal matters). After that if
> > > I have to ask permission from Novell I will inform the rest of the
> > > community about it so that we make the right actions so that all will
> > > be perfectly legal.
> >
> > Hi Kostas,
> >
> > As Vincent pointed out, the domain name policy is outlined on the trademarks 
> page.
> > I'm adding permission@xxxxxxxxxx to the "To" line to get you an official 
> answer.
> > The Greek Community is doing great stuff!
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > AlanClark
> Ok, thank you all for the information. I will inform the rest of the
> Greek community now. And I wait for the permission from Novell.
> Until we get the permission if you think that there is a reason to
> suspend those URL's please let me know to inform the owner of
> opensuse.gr to do that, although this I think would probably bring
> unnecessary upset to the Greek community.
> Kostas

No reason to suspend at all. Keep going. The Greek community is a great 
contribution to the project.
I'll get you the information you're looking for from permission@.

thanks,

Alan

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