Notes for a new Trademark policy

These are Luis's drafts and thoughts on a new TM policy. THEY ARE NOT A POLICY. For the official GNOME trademark policy, visit http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/index.html

Other policies

• http://live.gnome.org/Trademark <- draft from 2006, never got finalized

• http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/policy.html

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/New_trademark_guidelines

• http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy

• http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.pdf

• http://civic.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:trademark-policy&catid=42:licenses&Itemid=59

Actions to take around Announcement

• for pre-existing 'improper uses', see Joomla's faq (scroll to 'If I have a product name with the word Joomla! in it, what should I do?') and forms.

• write word use section for branding guidelines

Luis Draft

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