|| On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 20:08:36 +0200 || Andrea Glorioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ag> [...] ag> After the end of the funded lifetime, AGNULA has become a ag> (mostly) volunteer project; however, FSFE has registered the ag> "AGNULA" trademark and allows it to be used only by projects ag> which fulfill the general goal of supporting Free Software, from ag> both the technical and the philosophical points of view. ag> Current AGNULA volunteers have, of course, no problem with FSFE ag> registering the trademark - on the contrary, we feel this is a ag> useful strategy to avoid our work being misused. This doesn't sound very convinced to me, I have to say. People could conclude from it that the FSFE somehow forced the AGNULA project into the "remaining free" stance and the volunteers have no problem with it at the moment. Alternative wording might be: After European Commission funding has ended, AGNULA is now mostly a volunteer driven effort again. In order to protect that effort from appropriation by proprietary software, the FSFE has registered the "AGNULA" trademark and released a license for it that allows it to be used freely and without charge for any purpose except endorsement of proprietary software. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) GNU Business Network (http://mailman.gnubiz.org) Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org)
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