On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Jeff Spaleta<jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen<bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have been attacked, called names and so on in private because I refuse to sign the original document, as a result I have reacted from a personal point of view. > > [...] > I understand that you don't like having the TLA exist at all. I get > it. I think we can all agree that legal issues blow monkey chunks. > Legal issues which intersect community interests...even more so. I > really wish there was a pre-existing copyleft approach to trademark > that still allowed the trademark to be enforcible for a license. But > I'm not aware of such a construction. As it stands right now we have > to make a choice with regard to keeping the trademark in an > enforceable state. I think Glezos summed up the underlying issue. Is > protecting the trademark long term worth the intangible short term > cost? Its a very difficult question. We seemed to have survived the > introduction of the CLA for contributors even though there was heat > when it was introduced. It seems kinda complex to discuss complex issues over the net. This is even worse if some things are either already in stone, or kinda pre-decided. We're doing all these awesome conferences and activity days every now and then. Maybe we should schedule a few hours to discuss high-level Board-like policy-"umph!" issues. So, besides of just running a "Where are we and where are we going?" session, we'll also allow the board to answer tough questions from the community (eg. through something like [1]). I'd settle for a Board Summit once every a couple of years. -d [1]: http://moderator.appspot.com/ -- Dimitris Glezos Transifex: The Multilingual Publishing Revolution http://www.transifex.net/ -- http://www.indifex.com/ _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
