geni wrote:
On 11/16/06, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
The photo of the sunflower, and the crop thereof, are certainly copyrightable. My question would be: What exactly do we lose if we trademark only the name "MediaWiki", and make no attempt to protect the image?
People selling T-shirts with the logo on outside wikimedia and OS events? Someone useing it as the symbol for their softwear? There are various potential issues.
I can't speak for the entire board, of course, but I think that Erik, Anthere, and I at least have all weighed in during this thread to say that at the very least, for the flower logo which is part of the default install of the software, at least these board members are of the opinion that this is very different from all the other logos, and one which we have never had any interest in protecting or defending.
If we wanted to have a logo for mediawiki which is defendable, I suppose we would want to get a new one, because this one has been declared completely free of restrictions for so long that it is really not very defensible I think. And anyway, we have no interest in doing that.
If people want to make tshirts with the flower logo on it, and sell them, I doubt very much if at least these 3 board members would mind one bit. That's sort of what the point was of the decisions made in the past.
--Jimbo