[advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:57 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> The community hasn't been given the right to give the name to anybody,
> or for that matter, take it from anybody. The community explicitly has
> no rights over the name whatsoever.

so, either one of two things has happened:

 1) the project is a subsidiary part of the community; if the community
doesn't have the authority to use the name, neither does the project.

 2) the project is not a subsidiary part of the community and has no
authority to say its output is the work of the community as a whole.

> You can't enforce policy that doesn't exist. A policy surrounding the
> trademark should have been defined at the inception of the community.

until the policy exists, the project can't possibly have authority to
use the trademark.

						- Bill