Re: OT: term "hackathon" trademarked in Germany

2013-05-07 Thread Reiner Jung
Hi Peter, it looks like the problem with the usage of "Hackathon is solved". >From their own site: http://www.young-targets.com/free-licences/ # Why? Because we did not first founded the nonprofit organization “Tech_Hub” that will manage the revenue for the free tech scene. We went a diff

Re: OT: term "hackathon" trademarked in Germany

2013-05-07 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
There is a new update. "The attempt to take revenue for non-commercial purposes on a licensing model failed. [...] we will delete the trademark "hackathon"". http://www.young-targets.com/free-licences/ On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:49:27PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > A bit late to the par

Re: OT: term "hackathon" trademarked in Germany

2013-05-07 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
A bit late to the party, but here's my take on the situation - http://bsdly.blogspot.ca/2013/05/the-term-hackathon-has-been-trademarked.html - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Re

Re: OT: term "hackathon" trademarked in Germany

2013-05-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-05-04, Robert wrote: > OT, but some people might be interested in this legal stuff... > > It seems that a nonprofit organization in Germany trademarked the term > "hackathon": > > https://www.facebook.com/nicole.simon/posts/10151640773611303?_fb_noscript=1 > http://www.young-targets.com/f