[OSM-talk] Trademark policy
Yves
yvecai at gmail.com
Sun Sep 17 21:26:00 UTC 2017
Sorry for breaking the thread.
I understand the reasoning and the need for this policy, Simon, but can't help seeing the disappearance of such naive (somebody said infamous? ) names a bit sad.
But it's time to grow up, I guess.
Cheers,
Yves
Le 17 septembre 2017 23:10:40 GMT+02:00, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> a écrit :
>I believe there is a slight misunderstanding, while remixing
>OpenStreetMap/OSM/etc in various ways may result in cutesy copycat
>domain names they simply do not jibe well with reality.
>
>Not only does every single one of them weaken the standing of the marks
>themselves and make is increasingly difficult to take action against
>misuse, they are further uncontrollable liabilities for the whole
>community. I gave the example of OpenWeatherMap, but there are others
>that would be really painful if they ended up in the hands of your fav
>giant tech corp.
>
>That said, I'm not sure why you believe the policy has broken
>something,
>with the exception of a few local chapters, to my knowledge, the OSMF
>has never granted a licence to anybody to use the marks in a domain
>name. As outlined in the FAQ we will be operating a grandfathering
>scheme to legalize such use after the fact so actually making such use
>legit for the first time.
>
>And yes: WoQ would be a wonderful name for Yuris service and shows that
>it is completely possible to break out of the old schema of simply
>copying OSM.
>
>Simon
>
>
>Am 17.09.2017 um 15:57 schrieb Yves:
>> So, no OpenSparqlMap, then? :(
>> Sad, this policy definitely broke something.
>> Yves
>>
>> Le 17 septembre 2017 12:58:12 GMT+02:00, Blake Girardot
>> <bgirardot at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How does this relate to the new draft trademark policy?
>>
>> I can't tell from the draft policy, but I believe that OSM at
>least is
>> a protected mark, not sure about osm.
>>
>> But I do think Simone Poole asked the community to stop naming
>things
>> with osm trademarks in them or variations on openstreetmap
>phrase.
>>
>> Cheers
>> blake
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Yuri Astrakhan
><yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The new service is getting more and more usage, but it lacks
>> the most important thing - a good name. So far my two choices
>> are: * wikosm * wikidosm Suggestions? Votes? The service
>> combines Wikidata and OpenStreetMap databases, and uses
>SPARQL
>> (query language) to search it, so might be good to reflect
>> that in the name.
>>
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata%2BOSM_SPARQL_query_service
>> P.S. I know this is the hardest problem after off-by-one and
>> caching...
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