On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is trademarking completely out of the question? I see not only Firefox, > but ImageMagick, Inkscape, GNOME, GNU and Linux in > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trademarked_open-source_software – > Inkscape being of similar "size" to GIMP, does anyone know how much work > it cost them to register their trademark, and how much it costs them to > keep it? > > Reading through > https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-60000k5 > it doesn't look too bad in terms of money. (The whole section on > trademarks there is worth reading.) > > Also, it seems you may in fact call it GIMP™ already, since you have > certain "unregistered rights" to the trademark just because GIMP has > been used by this project as a trademark in practice. (But "®" requires > registering.) > > If you have a trademark, but never object to anyone using it in > commercial/confusing settings, it might get lost. But you can avoid > having to explicitly say yes to every distro and similar "good usage" by > having a simple license like GNOME does: > https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/FoundationBoard/Resources/LicensingGuidelines > See also https://www.gnome.org/logo-and-trademarks/ GIMP has existed for two decades in a decentralized ad-hoc manner without needing to incorporate as a legal person/entity in either the US or elsewhere. I hope it is possible for community based software projects to exist and to defend against bullying or misrepresentation without incorporating in various markets/territories. /pippin _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
