Hi Mark, On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:18 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What does this claim mean from https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-foundation? > Is it incorrect or is there a difference between the trademarks for MariaDB > and the MariaDB server? > >>> > The MariaDB Foundation also holds the trademark of the MariaDB server and > owns mariadb.org. This ensures that the official MariaDB development tree > will always be open for the MariaDB developer community. > >>>
There has been a discussion on whether the main MariaDB project, https://launchpad.net/maria, should be referred to as MariaDB Server to make it clearer what is being referred to. > From https://mariadb.org/foundation how are these goals to be achieved given > the trademark and documentation ownership (via mariadb.com/kb)? Note the > claims about that one company won't control it. > >>> > The structure of the MariaDB Foundation underpins everything we do. No one > person or company drives priorities, code, or shapes community. The MariaDB > Foundation uses technical and legal means to guarantee the technology used by > the world's largest database community will continue to be free in every > sense. > >>> As mentioned in my previous email the trademark issues are still being worked on and hopefully we’ll find a solution that satisfies all parties as good as possible. > This last one should be easy to fix. The "Purchase Developer Support" link on > the front page for mariadb.org ends up at > https://www.skysql.com/about/contact. Will others get a link there? The Developer Support was a Monty Program offering that pointed to a Monty Program web site. Apparently during the consolidation of the web sites this has now been redirected to SkySQL. Thanks for pointing out. I will take this back to the Foundation. Rasmus _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
