<div dir="ltr">That being said, to answer your actual question, I would treat
this in several elements:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<li>Do we want to trademark the names of more KDE products (I say
"more" since "KDE" is already trademarked, so arguably at least
one product is already trademarked). I personally have no strong
opinion, but I agree that trademarking can discourage
modification. There are ways to mitigate that, including
publishing a trademark policy, offering a contact point to ask
about the acceptability of changes, and facilitating renaming,
for example by adding a compilation option to set a different
name. I would also suggest committing to publish a list of all
trademark enforcement actions done, so those who consider
modifying can get an idea of what will actually be accepted or
not.</li></ol></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><ol>
<li>If we do agree to trademark more names, which names? We tend
to have lots of names for lots of projects, many of which I
suppose may take a while to be sufficiently important to justify
trademarking. I propose a wiki page as a way to list candidates
and poll developers about each <br></li></ol></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><ol>
<li>For those names we do trademark, how much should the <span>™ </span>symbol be used? I would not like
seeing it everywhere, but I do not mind seeing it in the About
screen, for instance.</li>
<li>Who would own those trademarks?<br></li></ol></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>My proposal would be to trademark all app names since they are all liable to be hijacked by third parties for whatever purposes. It would mean adding a <span>™ </span>symbol on web pages where we promote those apps. They would be owned by KDE e.v. Other apps like KOffice have done this in the past as I say. However it seems nobody is very much in suppose of the idea so we'll just have to live with third parties living off our good names.</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>