On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this makes a lot of sense from a legal perspective (IANAL).

> My only concern is: how legally binding is asking this question on
> sage-devel with a 5-day turnaround?

They just wanted me to get a general sense of how the community of
Sage developers feel.  As recognized leader of the project, etc., I
can make the decision.

 -- William

>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:08 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jason Grout
>> <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
>>> On 5/31/12 2:15 PM, Keshav Kini wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Harald Schilly<harald.schi...@gmail.com>  writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:07:46 PM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     ...move to some
>>>>>     other umbrella control (perhaps FSF, or maybe not, or maybe something
>>>>>     separate like the http://oeisf.org/).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What about http://sfconservancy.org/ ?
>>>>>
>>>>> This is separate from this trademark question here, but thinking about a
>>>>> better
>>>>> "umrella" in the long term might be a good thing. Also, what about the
>>>>> trademark in the EU, etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don't we already have a Sage Foundation? There is `a wiki page`_, but it
>>>> seems to be a proposal rather than information about a currently
>>>> existing organization. I'm sure I've heard people referring to the Sage
>>>> Foundation as something that exists, though.
>>>>
>>>> ... _a wiki page: http://wiki.sagemath.org/Foundation
>>>
>>>
>>> The Sage Foundation is also through UW (IIRC), so I guess that is one more
>>> reason to let UW control the Sage trademark...
>>
>> Yep, the Sage Foundation is an account at Univ of Washington.  It
>> contains a not insignificant amount of money, and receives regular
>> tax-deductible donations from a range of sources, e.g., people who
>> visit this web site [1].
>>
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>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
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