On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:40:49AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 8/3/07, Daniel de Kok danieldk@pobox.com wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:57 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 8/3/07, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Being that we (ATRPMS/CentOS) are working together on some projects already and if you are interested in doing this MythCentOS project under the CentOS umbrella, then we can discuss this among the Core CentOS group ... but I think we would agree to allow a MythCentOS to exist and use the CentOS name.
Gets my vote.
If Axel is interested, I agree that it would be nice to look if that can be worked out.
Well I think Axel's question though does cover some other issues though.
What are the CentOS trademark guidelines? Currently there do not seem to be any listed on the website. There do not seem to be any in the included product, and there does not seem to be a registered trademark. I know this gets into the murky area of law, ip etc.. but it does come up and people's assumptions that they can use it for anything they want because it is not OBVIOUSLY registered, protected, or guidelined..
I think CentOS should register the trademark in the countries this is most important (US + EU?) and offer a review dependent usage: If a derived product/project like mythcentos or maybe centosfirewall, etc. wants to make use of trademarks/artwork it should offer the final product for a check by centos-devel and get the blessing. I wouldn't suggest any blanket approvals though, CentOS should always have the final say to check whether this step would potentially harm the brand instead of strengthening it.