Fwd: [DotGNU]proposal: DotGNU Trademark License

Wed Aug 6 06:22:28 UTC 2003

Dear License discuss list,
I would be interested i hearing you opinon on this proposed license
that norbert has posted to the dotgnu developers list.
Mike

--- Norbert Bollow <nb at cisto.com> wrote:
> From Norbert Bollow Tue Aug  5 12:17:30 2003
> Subject: [DotGNU]proposal: DotGNU Trademark License
> 
> A recent discussion with Stephen J. Turnbull has reminded me
> that it is very important to create some legal protection for
> the term "DotGNU Webservice".
> 
> Provided that the FSF agrees to this idea, I'd like to include
> something like the following in the documentation that will be
> part of the upcoming DotGNU 0.1 release:
> 
> 
> """
> "DotGNU Webservice" Servicemark License
> 
> Version 0.1-alpha1
> 
> Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
> 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA
> 
> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
> 
> 
> 
> "GNU" is a registered trademark of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> "DotGNU Webservice" is a servicemark of the Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
> 
> TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USING THE "DotGNU Webservice" SERVICEMARK.
> 
> 0. This License grants, to businesses which satisfy the
>    conditions that are outlined in sections 1 and 2 below,
>    permission to use the "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark
>    in the context of their commercial activities.
> 
>    Activities which are not of commercial nature are outside the
>    scope of this license; in particular there are no restrictions
>    on using the term "DotGNU Webservice" outside the context of
>    making a commercial service offering.
> 
>    Every business which fulfils the conditions that are outlined
>    in sections 1 and 2 below may choose to accept this license,
> thereby
>    becoming a licensee.  Each licensee is addressed as "you".
> 
>    You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
>    signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to use the
>    "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark in the context of making
> commercial 
>    service offerings; that is prohibited by law if you do not accept
>    this License. Therefore, by using the "DotGNU Webservice"
>    servicemark in such a commercial context, you indicate your
>    acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and
>    conditions. 
> 
> 
> 1. The "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark may only be used in connection
>    with services that satisfy DotGNU's definition of "webservices",
>    namely the following two conditions must be satisfied:
> 
>    (a) Some functionality is provided, and in addition there is
>        a description of this functionality, namely how the
>        service should be used and what it provides.
> 
>    (b) The service is offered over a computer network (e.g. the
>        internet or an intranet) via standard protocols, i.e.
> protocols
>        that are open, widely published, and freely available for
> anyone
>        to implement.
> 
>    If you provide a commercial service and use the "DotGNU
> Webservice"
>    servicemark, you must in addition satisfy the following two
>    conditions:
> 
>    (c) You must ensure that whenever the service is usable, the owner
>        of the data is able to download the data plus the program
> which
>        acts on the data (the "webservice program") in an executable
>        form which can be used with a version of the DGEE ("DotGNU
>        Execution Environment") webservice server which has been
>        released by the DotGNU Project of the Free Software
> Foundation.
> 
>    (d) You must provide your customers with a written offer, valid
> for
>        at least three years, to give them upon request, at no extra
>        charge, on a medium customarily used for software interchange,
>        licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
>        a complete machine-readable copy of the source code of the
>        webservice program plus any compilers and libraries which are
>        needed to translate the webservice program into executable
>        form.
> 
>    The term "webservice program" in sections (c) and (d) above refers
>    to a computer program which can be used together with a version of
>    the DGEE ("DotGNU Execution Environment") webservice server to
>    provide a webservice which is identical in functionality to the
>    webservice which the customer has purchased from you.  
> 
> 
> 2. Any violation of the conditions in section 1 will automatically
>    terminate your rights under this License.  You must not use the
>    "DotGNU Webservice" servicemark if you have previously violated
> any
>    of the conditions in section 1.
> 
> """
> 
> Greetings, Norbert.
> 
> -- 
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> http://gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/
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> Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich,
> Switzerland)
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