--- Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
All I see is a company offering to host pre-configured MediaWiki installations for customers under the terms of the GPL. Where's the problem?
Use of the term 'Media Wiki' as if it were their product or service. It is not. That degrades our MediaWiki trademark and must be defended against if we wish to keep control of that trademark.
All that is really needed is for somebody from the foundation to ask them to rewrite their adverts and other descriptions of their service to make it clear that they are offering a hosting service for installations of MediaWiki. Using the wording 'MediaWiki hosting' implies an official branding agreement. It is not.
This is the same reason why websites can't put a copy of Wikipedia content on their website and call it 'Wikipedia' or publish a bound copy with the word 'Wikipedia' and/or the Wikipedia logo on its cover. Doing so implies that their copy is an official publication by Wikipedia. Oh, and this is a separate issue from giving credit; doing so correctly does not present trademark issues.
-- mav
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