[Koha] Koha trademarks

[Kyle Hall]

That is quite a statement to make. Just because the source code is
open source does not mean the Koha trademarks are. Do you think
someone else should be able to make another ILS and call it Koha just
because they can? Liblime is a primary contributor to Koha and has
registered the Koha trademark in the US to prevent its dilution, the
same goes for Biblibre in France. Liblime purchased all copyrights to
the Koha code and marks that Katipo used to own, if I have my history
correct. I don't think you understand how Open Source works all that
well.

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )




2009/5/10  <COURYHOUSE at aol.com>:
>
> sounds like crap to me... liblime is a persons company trying to  take
> ownership of koha logos?  I am sure the one with the slice of lime is
> theirs....but  do not believe they are entitled to  rights on any thing that
> came as a result of the  opensource project
>
>   gosh is there a Fascist amongst us?
>
>
> In a message dated 5/10/2009 4:13:34 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> jransom at library.org.nz writes:
>
> Can someone please help me understand what this statement at the bottom
> of the new Koha website means for the Koha community:
>
> "The Koha -- Open Source Library System is © 1999-2009 by LibLime & the
> Koha Development Team
>
> Koha^® and the Koha logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
> LibLime <http://new.koha.org/liblime.com> and BibLibre
> <http://biblibre.com> in the United States, France and other countries.
> Distributed under the GNU GPL license
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/>."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jo.
>
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