Re: [gentoo-nfp] "Gentoo" registered trademark

[Daniel Ostrow]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 08:22 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Grant Goodyear wrote:
> > I just received the paperwork certifying that "GENTOO" is now a
> > registered trademark of the US.  What that means is that Swift's notices
> > of infringement now have not only the force of (US) law behind them, but
> > a bit more urgency, too, since we are required to protect the trademark.
> >
> > So, here's what we're going to need:
> >
> > 1. All Gentoo docs need some sed magic to put the registered trademark
> >    symbol (that R-in-a-circle thingy) after "Gentoo" wherever it is
> >    used.  (Alternatively, one can use the words "Registered in the U.S.
> >    Patent and Trademark Office" or "Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off.")
> >    I'm not sure right now what needs to be done with text docs (such
> >    as man pages).
>
> How does this apply for ebuilds? Do we need to include a simliar
> statement in every ebuild or is that separate from the copyright issue
> in the ebuilds?

The only location that the word Gentoo shows up independently (as in not
part of mirror://gentoo et. al.) in most ebuilds is the Copyright Header
which states Copyright <date range> Gentoo Foundation. The question is
is the usage of the word Gentoo in this context privy to our trademark.

Come to think of it I also wonder weather that statement should be
amended (not changed in the tree just changed for the future) to say
Copyright <date range> The Gentoo® Foundation, Inc. as it is the name of
the corporation that will hold (once the copyright grant issues are
finalized) the copyright on the works contained in the ebuilds.

Also just and fyi I just made a test ebuild with the registered
trademark character (unicode: U+00AE be careful as I don't think that
ascii 174 is valid) and it passes glep31check so if we do have to add
them it seems to be ok.

-- 
Daniel Ostrow
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel}
dostrow@g.o


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