[Zope] Re: Zope Foundation Update

[Andreas Jung]

--On 20. Juli 2005 19:17:59 -0500 George Donnelly <list at zettai.net> wrote:

> Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
>
> ZC says: the marks were stolen
> ZEA seems to be saying: the marks were registered defensively.
>
> My read on this is that there is a serious communication problem going
> on here between the lines. Why doesn't Paul come out and state what the
> ZEA position is? Why are ZC's words so angry?
>

I am disappointed hearing that ZEA registered the trademarks silently 
already 18 months ago. The German Zope User Group (DZUG) asked ZC for 
permission using the Zope logo and the domain name zope.de for our 
community websites (which was never a problem). But in this case we would 
have to ask ZEA for permission as keeper of the trademarks in Europe?! I am 
sorry to say this but the secrecy on the ZEA side is not really acceptable. 
I can understand ZEA argument to have registered the trademarks for 
defending Zope from improper use but why did not you notify ZC or the 
community about it? As someone working in the Zope business I need to know 
who is having what and why. Such things should not kept secret when you are 
dealing in the open-source business. So this whole issue is a shame for the 
complete Zope community.

-aj

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