On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 04:28:30PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > > >> > >>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, > > I would be very surprised if registering CentOS as a tm had any > implications for the words "mythcentos" or "centosfirewall," Actually I suggested the above irrespective of the original question. But to asnwer to your feedback: While NAL I would not really agree with what you say. The trademark is to protect to product and its branding. If I take mythcentos or centosfoo and produce a very crappy derivative product I would harm the project's branding, so it would not be a fair use of the term anymore. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070823/8d680ae3/attachment-0007.sig>