[Koha] Koha trademarks
Lenora Oftedahl
OFTL at critfc.org
Tue May 12 04:03:27 NZST 2009
So, how do we start a Koha Foundation? Is it simply filling out
paperwork and registering as a non-profit? I'll be happy to start looking
into this and talking with a lawyer I know who might be willing to give
free advice.
Lenora
StreamNet Regional Librarian
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
http://www.fishlib.org
>>> Rachel Hamilton-Williams <rachel at katipo.co.nz> 5/10/2009 4:24 PM >>>
Joann Ransom wrote:
> 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/>."
It means just what it says. I believe that individual contributors
retain copyright of their particular "bits" of the work that go into
"koha", which is who the "koha development team" are. Listing them all
would be a bit cumbersome, and I think Liblime are the majority
copyright holder at the moment. It's a little bit of a hangover from
when Katipo ran the site - we had a similar statement. We haven't had a
"body" to assign our copyrights too, so they are still owned by the
people who wrote them.
Various important names and trademarks have bee registered by some
companies usually in their local jurisdictions to make sure they are
held by someone within the Koha community.
Both Liblime & BibLibre have said they'll assign those assets to a koha
foundation when one eventuates, but of course we have to have a legal
body who can "hold" them before they can be assigned.
Cheers
Rachel
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jo.
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