| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lance Obermeyer <LObermey(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca> |
| Subject: | Re: Pervasive PostgreSQL Announcement |
| Date: | 2005-01-11 18:14:14 |
| Message-ID: | 200501111014.14255.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Bruce,
> In fact we registered PostgreSQL only to prevent someone else from
> registering it and blocking the community from using it. We want others
> to use it for their products so if our registering it prevented you from
> using it, that is a shame and is not what we intended, in fact the
> opposite. We registered it so you would be safe to use it.
>
> Can someone explain how this is to be handled? I don't think the
> trademark laws really encourage someone to trademark something so others
> can use it and we should figure out a plan.
Well, one obvious possibility is, once we get the Foundation approved by the
IRS, to transfer ownership of the trademark to the Foundation. Then the
Foundation can offer the trademark under a public license that explicitly
gives permission to anyone to use it who is "using it properly", that is for
a distribution of the PostgreSQL code.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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