On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 5/30/12 10:01 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> They tell me that later on they will be willing to >> sell the trademark to me in exchange for the cost they had to pay to >> register it. > > > Can you get that in writing?
I'm sure I can. They told me repeatedly and clearly that this was the case in a meeting today. > Branding is a huge deal here, and it would be > very sad if some hiccup or falling out between you and UW prevented us from > using the name Sage after all we've done to promote it. > > Does that mean I'd need to contact UW in order to print more Sage stickers > or flyers? Definitely not. > Would they have to do a legal review of such things? No. It would mean that if somebody decided to make a webpage full of spam and claimed it was the Sage math software project, then we would have a legal footing to complain about it. They don't have any interest or investment in Sage beyond "they" being me (I am, after all, a part of UW). -- William > > Jason > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
