Fwd: Re: CDROM-Artwork

[Peer Schaefer]

Hi Deb,

I am not happy about this. If Oliver is right, we should include 
attributions for all used trademarks, which would make the footer pretty 
large. If that's legally required, may it be, but it's more and more pain.

But I need clear guidelines of what to do. I will not make any further 
changes until this issue is discussed and settled.

Best regards,
Peer


-------- Original-Message --------
About: 	Re: CDROM-Artwork
Date: 	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:44:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: 	Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>
To: 	freebsd-advocacy at FreeBSD.ORG, peer.schaefer at hamburg.de, 
www at FreeBSD.ORG, board at freebsdfoundation.org, deb at freebsdfoundation.org, 
deb at FreeBSD.ORG



Deb Goodkin wrote:
 > [...]
 > 2. In the description on the back of the DVD case and CD sleeve, only 
 > use the "r in circle" for the first use of the FreeBSD mark. You can 
 > probably do the same with Unix.

No, that will be insufficient.  It is required to add an
attribution, according to The Open Group which is the owner
of the UNIX trademark.  Note that it has to be spelled
"UNIX" (all upper case); any other spellings ("Unix",
"unix", "UN*X" etc) are considered an infringment of the
trademark, except in private communications.

I know a company who once had legal trouble with The Open
Group because of incorrect usage of the UNIX trademark on
their web pages.  So this should be taken serious.

The Open Group has a detailed explanation of the usage
guidelines for their trademarks (including UNIX) here:

http://www.opengroup.org/registration/tmug.pdf

There's also a quick and simple overview here:

http://www.opengroup.org/trademarks.htm

Best regards
   Oliver

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