[Koha] Koha trademarks

[MJ Ray]

Nicolas Morin <nicolas.morin at 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?

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