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Bug 644932 - Update fgo licensing page with new content
Update fgo licensing page with new content
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: website
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: wiki.gnome.org
current
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Wiki maintainers
Wiki maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-03-16 16:06 UTC by Brian Cameron
Modified: 2018-09-24 10:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Users Group form PDF format (100.46 KB, application/pdf)
2011-03-16 16:08 UTC, Brian Cameron
Details
User's Group form in TEX format (16.72 KB, application/octet-stream)
2011-03-16 16:08 UTC, Brian Cameron
Details

Description Brian Cameron 2011-03-16 16:06:00 UTC
Note that I have been working with James Vasile from the Software Freedom Law Center to update the standard GNOME Foundation brand licensing forms.  These new
forms, for example, allow User's Groups to sell GNOME branded merchandise (as long as the profits are only used for GNOME-related activities).  The current forms on fgo disallow this, so the new forms would be nice to put in place more officially:

The work includes:

Update this Licensing page as follows:

 http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/index.html

- We now have a standard form for those who sell GNOME branded merchandise.  
  On http://live.gnome.org/Trademark, the new form is in the section
  "Commercial Trademark Exploitation Agreements"

  http://live.gnome.org/Trademark#Commercial_Trademark_Exploitation_Agreements

  So, on the fgo page, we should add a section to highlight that The GNOME 
  Foundation uses this following form for those who sell GNOME branded 
  merchandise.  In other words, you can only sell GNOME branded merchandise if 
  you have made this agreement with The GNOME Foundation.

- The "GNOME user group license agreement" link should point
  to the new form:

  http://live.gnome.org/Trademark#Trademark_Agreement_for_User_Groups

  Note that the new form allows Users Groups to sell GNOME-branded
  merchandise with the requirement that funds received be used for the
  benefit of the GNOME Users Group and that the funds be kept in a
  tax-free bank account (e.g. you could use The GNOME Foundation's
  account).  The old form did not allow Users Groups to sell any
  merchandise.  So the new form fixes this.  Might be nice to highlight
  this change.

  In the "User Groups" section of the form, I think it would probably be
  good to also include a link to the Users Groups Wiki, just so people
  understand more about what a GNOME User Group is:

  http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups

- Our lawyers recommended that we should update the "Third Party Usage 
  Guidelines" page:

  http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/

  and remove this line:

  * Do not use GNOME Trademarks as meta tags for your web pages.

  James Vasile gave this reason:

  > That looks ok to me, except the part about meta tags.  Do we really
  > care about that?  In the trademark world, fighting over meta tags is a
  > disfavored practice.  There's a chance you *might* be able to enforce
  > it legally, but the bad publicity would make it counterproductive.  I
  > suggest you remove it. 

- I think it would make sense to get rid of the following Wiki pages and
  move the content to the fgo page:

  http://live.gnome.org/Trademark
  http://live.gnome.org/Trademark/FAQ

  Much of the information on the http://live.gnome.org/Trademark page is
  redundant, but we should make sure that any useful information is migrated
  to the fgo website.  We should add the FAQ to the fgo website.

- Note that the Users Group form refers to this website.  It might be better
  for this page to be moved to fgo as well (perhaps to 
  http://foundation.gnome.org/users or something), so it is a bit more official.

  http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups/Guidelines

Can these changes be made?

Thanks,

Brian
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2011-03-16 16:08:05 UTC
Created attachment 183549 [details]
Users Group form PDF format
Comment 2 Brian Cameron 2011-03-16 16:08:27 UTC
Created attachment 183550 [details]
User's Group form in TEX format
Comment 3 Brian Cameron 2011-03-16 16:11:58 UTC
I attached updated versions of the User's Group forms put together by Tobias Mueller that I think are a bit better formatted than the one on the Wiki.  I'd use this version.

A few more comments:

- Note that the Users Group form is currently a web form that the user signs 
  by entering their contact information and clicking the "Submit" button.  
  We want to get rid of this form and instead expect the person to print it 
  out, fill it out, and mail it to The GNOME Foundation.  So this should be
  changed, and the instructions should clarify that this is how people should
  do things.

- I think it might be best to provide the forms in PDF as a standard format
  if that sounds reasonable.
Comment 4 Brian Cameron 2011-04-15 23:01:27 UTC
Any update?  This has been sitting idle for a month, and I was under the impression this was not a lot of work that was going to be done soon.
Comment 5 Tobias Mueller 2012-04-02 07:42:31 UTC
hm. Now that the foundation website has moved, I don't know where the licensing content has gone to :-\ Unfortunately, we have a wordpress instance now, and no repository which allows local and offline searching :-\

You can still, nonetheless, upload the changes to the foundation-web repository and we can then see, how to migrate stuff from there onto the new site.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2012-04-02 07:50:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> hm. Now that the foundation website has moved, I don't know where the licensing
> content has gone to :-\

http://www.gnome.org/foundation/legal-and-trademarks/
Comment 7 Tobias Mueller 2012-04-02 07:56:06 UTC
So this is, what is currently reads:


Third-party usage guidelines

Under the law, “fair use” of trademarks is allowed (for example, trademarks typically may be used without permission in magazine and book reviews). The GNOME Foundation trademark usage guidelines for third parties describe what is appropriate fair use of the GNOME trademarks.
User group license agreement

User groups are a very important part of the GNOME community. User groups have a need to make use of the GNOME trademarks in such ways as creating and distributing marketing materials or creating web sites. (The usage of the term user group here is broad: the canonical example would be a group of people using and promoting GNOME in a specific locality, but it could also be a group of developers working on an open source GNOME application or many similar non-commerical uses.)

By agreeing to the GNOME user group license agreement a user group obtains permission to use the GNOME trademarks under certain conditions.



So the new website apparently has changed the wording.


The rest of the changes seem to be in the wiki. Hence I think the bug can be assigned to live.gnome.org.
Comment 8 Tobias Mueller 2012-04-18 12:40:28 UTC
reassigning as per last comment.
Comment 9 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-24 10:16:31 UTC
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