On 01/19/2010 03:50 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Leif Hedstrom wrote: > >> Traffic Server would like to resolve the TradeMark issues. >> Who would be able to make this call? > > The relevant content is: > >> Y! holds several TMs for the name "Traffic Server", most of which >> expires soon. Our legal team has proposed two possible solutions, >> the first being the easiest for us. > >> 1. Yahoo! provides ASF with a letter of assurance stating that we >> own all right, title and interest in and to the TRAFFIC SERVER >> mark and the four active registrations and that we will not take >> any action against ASF or any of its licensees during the life of >> these registrations (and we'd express our intention of letting >> them lapse and expire in this letter). > >> 2. Yahoo! will assign all right, title and interest in and to the >> TRAFFIC SERVER mark including the four active registrations to >> ASF [though we'd probably want to make this contingent on getting >> through the incubator stage]. > > We can run this through Apache Legal, but my take is that we'd prefer option > #2, which is the same route that I believe was previously used for > SpamAssassin.
+1 > > One issue, as I understand it, is that the ASF probably should not be > letting marks lapse, and should be maintaining them. But those aspects > ought to be ASF-wide, and would come from Apache Legal. Sure. Cheers Jean-Frederic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
