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On Saturday 17 April 2004 13:39, Stroller wrote: |
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> Surely "perpetual use of the "Gentoo" trademark and "G" logo" permits |
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> Gentoo Technologies Inc the same freedoms that RedHat & Mandrake have |
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> with their own trademarks & logos..? |
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> I have no idea what the implications are of this. I'm sure no-one |
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> begrudges you the money made off t-shirts, boxed sets or even official |
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> support, however I don't see how Gentoo NFP would be protected against |
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> you charging for, say, a Gentoo premium service. |
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> Why not just have Gentoo NFP employ you in your cd-burning, |
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> t-shirt-printing capacity, and have the NFP pay you a wage..? |
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I talked with Daniel yesterday. Basically the reason for this whole license |
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thing is that there must be some garantees against the NFP falling appart. We |
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hope there won't be fights in the board either, but in case such things |
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happen, Daniel would be able to take the trademark, the GPL'ed source and the |
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developers and continue the distribution. After the NFP has lived for a while |
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( and has gone through several board changes ) this should not be necessary |
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and the license could be given back. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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