Nicolas Morin <nicolas.morin@biblibre.com> wrote: [...]
Kohala is a very loose organization. Membership is not defined : anybody can become a voting member, SirsiDynix can become a voting member! Jay Jordan can become a voting member! [...]
If they're using Koha, that's fine by me. Open membership is good (cooperative principle one: see http://www.software.coop/info/coopdev.html ) I was surprised that there didn't seem to be any activity restriction on voting, or a more robust executive control, but someone else chose the governing documents IIRC.
Kohala was never meant to be a power-yielding entity : it was always meant to be a place for free-wheeling discussions about Koha, nothing more, nothing less.
That is rather different to its governing documents: "Article 2. This object of this association is the development, documentation, protection, promotion and distribution of the free software library management system Koha." http://www.koha-fr.org/node/2 If it was never meant to do those things and it's meant as a powerless talking shop, that label should not have been put on the tin. Let's fix one of them, please?
So I don't think Kohala could own the TM, no.
Surely it *could* own it, but we might disagree on whether it's a better holder than BibLibre or not? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef). LMS developer and supporter for a small, friendly worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237