On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <lea...@debian.org> wrote: > [ Mail-Followup-To: -project ] > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:57:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> This policy states that the contact for trademark questions is >> tradem...@debian.org. Where does this address go? I think it's important >> for transparency that the responsible parties be listed on >> <http://www.debian.org/intro/organization>; I can't tell if this is an alias >> for leader@, or a team, or what. (/etc/aliases on master mentions it going >> to leader@, but this entry is commented out.) > > Right, thanks for asking. > > Short answer: trademark@d.o is at present an alias for leader@d.o. > > The story goes that, in the past, the trademark policy used to point > directly to leader@d.o for inquiries. I think that is not scalable and > also unwise, as 1-year DPL terms account for very little memory about > procedures, trademark knowledge, etc. So a group of people answering > trademark inquiries might be useful. That group should *also* include > the DPL, as giving specific trademark licenses is an action on Debian > assets; but other inquiries (e.g. "is this nominative use?") can easily > be answered by others. > > Creating trademark@d.o has simply been a first step toward that goal. > > Now, the next step is finding other people willing to help with those > inquiries and add them behind those alias. It would also be appropriate > to have some RT queue for it, to avoid losing track of requests > (something which happens way to often with other mail aliases that are > not associated to any sort of BTS). > > So: anyone up to help with this? The load is very light: in 2012 we've > received only 16 requests. Still, it is important to reply promptly and > professionally to them. The requirements to help are some minimal > familiarity with trademark law --- "minimal" because all non-obvious > cases should better be routed to SPI legal support.
I can help. I'm pretty familiar with *US* trademark law, as this field is an area of interest for me, and my wife is a practicing trademark attorney, who was a trademark examiner at the USPTO earlier in her career. Please let me know what I can do to help. > Regarding documentation on www.d.o/intro/organization of who is behind > trademark@d.o: sure, that's a good idea. Patches/commits welcome :-) > > Thanks in advance, > Cheers. > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o > Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o > Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacfairy0egcjfnwibvai85quz-exk7x63lc3w0k-0y2s6wp...@mail.gmail.com
