[Koha] Koha trademarks

[celikbas at itu.edu.tr]

> So, how do we start a Koha Foundation?  Is it simply filling out

Some well known free applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Apache,  
Gnome) have their own foundations (Mozilla, Gnome and Apache  
Foundation) These organizations can be taken as an example to the Koha  
Foundation.

Zeki Celikbas
Istanbul Technical University

Alinti Lenora Oftedahl <OFTL at critfc.org>

>
> 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
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>>>> 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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