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This is a pretty poor reply to a valid argument. Either way, I'm more than willing to listen to feedback, and make changes to the trademark policy. As explaine

by Dries 17y ago

This is a pretty poor reply to a valid argument. Either way, I'm more than willing to listen to feedback, and make changes to the trademark policy. As explained in this thread, the policy was developed with the help of the community, and I'll continue to refine and improve the policy based on constructive feedback and concrete suggestions. Unfortunately, so far, I've not seen concrete suggestions -- this entire discussion seems to be pretty trollish.

jacquesm 17y ago
Ok, let me make it explicit: - Parties that had an operation going before this policy became public are not and will not be bound by it now or in the future. (grandfather clause) - registering domains that are critical of drupal is fine, in fact drupal should welcome criticism, even when drupal does not control the forum. The need for that is evidenced by the fact that criticism on the drupal.org site is not always taken in a way that invites further criticism. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and by trying to control the forum you are effectively saying that drupal is afraid of criticism in the same way that companies like Apple and Microsoft are afraid of criticism. We're talking about an open source CMS here, no need to go overboard. - remove the ridiculous claims that all proceeds from projects involving the drupal name should go towards 'fostering drupal software'. Live and let live. That's my reading of the wording right now, maybe your interpretation differs. - reserve the right to enforce your trademark rights in sofar as the use of the name directly damages drupal with malicious intent. (such as that guy that had registered drupal.se that I mentioned elsewhere). And last but not least, simplify the thing, make it at least less than 1/3 the size it is right now. If you expect people to read it and post if front and center on drupal.org so that a person new to drupal has no way to get to the software without knowing what the rules of the game are. Specific enough ?

by Dries 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago

Ok, let me make it explicit: - Parties that had an operation going before this policy became public are not and will not be bound by it now or in the future. (grandfather clause) - registering domains that are critical of drupal is fine, in fact drupal should welcome criticism, even when drupal does not control the forum. The need for that is evidenced by the fact that criticism on the drupal.org site is not always taken in a way that invites further criticism. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and by trying to control the forum you are effectively saying that drupal is afraid of criticism in the same way that companies like Apple and Microsoft are afraid of criticism. We're talking about an open source CMS here, no need to go overboard. - remove the ridiculous claims that all proceeds from projects involving the drupal name should go towards 'fostering drupal software'. Live and let live. That's my reading of the wording right now, maybe your interpretation differs. - reserve the right to enforce your trademark rights in sofar as the use of the name directly damages drupal with malicious intent. (such as that guy that had registered drupal.se that I mentioned elsewhere). And last but not least, simplify the thing, make it at least less than 1/3 the size it is right now. If you expect people to read it and post if front and center on drupal.org so that a person new to drupal has no way to get to the software without knowing what the rules of the game are. Specific enough ?