KDE Apps name trademarks

[Jonathan Riddell]

That being said, to answer your actual question, I would treat this in
several elements:

>
>    1. 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.
>
>
>    1. 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
>
>
>    1. For those names we do trademark, how much should the ™ symbol be
>    used? I would not like seeing it everywhere, but I do not mind seeing it in
>    the About screen, for instance.
>    2. Who would own those trademarks?
>
>
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 ™ 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.

Jonathan
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