On 2/10/2011 at 09:35 PM, in message <AANLkTin_rtvcvDxe8jr6Ownpyq90E6rSVNSXKmCuh4RT@mail.gmail.com>, Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@gmail.com> wrote: 2011/2/11 Alan Clark <aclark@novell.com>: 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@novell.com 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org