[legal] Jabber Foundation Trademark Policy

[Johannes Ernst]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 16:49, Gabe Wachob wrote:
> Do we want to have a trademark committee? See
> http://www.jabber.org/trademark/how.shtml

The OpenID Foundation board has a trademark committee, and that's why  
we are having this discussion ;-)

http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/OpenID_Foundation/Committees

> If you look at http://www.jabber.org/trademark/approved.shtml and
> http://www.jabber.org/trademark/pending.shtml, it really looks like  
> they
> aren't putting their process into action - there are only about 9  
> approved
> licensees (incl individuals and open source projects). This may have
> something to do with the migration to XMPP (as the followon to  
> Jabber), but
> it sure looks like this process may not have actually been complied  
> with in
> many cases...

 From talking to the guys at the Jabber Software Foundation, I have  
learned that in their view, the policy has been a good success.

I would tend towards the view that if they have been successful in  
their view, we will be more successful adopting whatever worked for  
them than -- with limited resources -- attempting to do it ourselves  
at this point in time. Having said that, nobody would argue the  
policy couldn't evolve over time.




Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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