That being said, to answer your actual question, I would treat this in several elements:
> > 1. Do we want to trademark the names of more KDE products (I say > "more" since "KDE" is already trademarked, so arguably at least one product > is already trademarked). I personally have no strong opinion, but I agree > that trademarking can discourage modification. There are ways to mitigate > that, including publishing a trademark policy, offering a contact point to > ask about the acceptability of changes, and facilitating renaming, for > example by adding a compilation option to set a different name. I would > also suggest committing to publish a list of all trademark enforcement > actions done, so those who consider modifying can get an idea of what will > actually be accepted or not. > > > 1. If we do agree to trademark more names, which names? We tend to > have lots of names for lots of projects, many of which I suppose may take a > while to be sufficiently important to justify trademarking. I propose a > wiki page as a way to list candidates and poll developers about each > > > 1. For those names we do trademark, how much should the ™ symbol be > used? I would not like seeing it everywhere, but I do not mind seeing it in > the About screen, for instance. > 2. Who would own those trademarks? > > My proposal would be to trademark all app names since they are all liable to be hijacked by third parties for whatever purposes. It would mean adding a ™ symbol on web pages where we promote those apps. They would be owned by KDE e.v. Other apps like KOffice have done this in the past as I say. However it seems nobody is very much in suppose of the idea so we'll just have to live with third parties living off our good names. Jonathan
