Kostas Koudaras wrote:
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?
You can own domain name 'opensuse.xxx', if it's not owned by others yet and you may sell it legally as well. But trademark is another issue. As far as I understand and according to trademark guidelines, 'you should seek Novell's permission' when you want to provide some services by using 'opensuse.xxx' domain name.
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.
If I understand correctly, what Novell concerns is that the term 'openSUSE' will be used by third parties as if they are authorized agents. So I don't think Novell has a reason to reject your request for permission, as long as you use the domain name for Greek community's activities. ;-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org