[Owncloud] company/community relationship

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 20.08.2012, at 20:56, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:

> On Monday 20 August 2012 14:51 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> On 17.08.2012, at 21:30, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> 
>>>> - ownCloud, Inc. is a software company built around the ownCloud Open
>>>> Source project and is fully committed to Open Source principles.
>>>> 
>>>> - ownCloud is developed as an Open Source project by all participants of
>>>> the ownCloud community.
>>>> 
>>>> - All members of the ownCloud community understand that ownCloud Inc. can
>>>> sell proprietary licenses for ownCloud to its customers. As in many Open
>>>> Source companies, parts of the proceeds flow back into the ownCloud
>>>> community, e.g. through sponsorships or employing ownCloud community
>>>> developers.
>>> 
>>> "Given the open AGPL licensing scheme ownCloud Inc. (and others) can
>>> choose to sell proprietary licenses and equally develop optional
>>> proprietary plugins for it's customers, while..."
>> 
>> See the answer from Klaas here. An additional mail about this topic is
>> coming in a few minutes
> 
> Yeah, I was too fast in that one. What I meant to add was that it's possible 
> for 3rd parties to develop proprietary plugins as well (I presume), which is 
> also a good selling point.
> 
>>>> - The ownCloud community respects the ownCloud trademark usage
>>>> guidelines,
>>>> which explain usage options for the ownCloud trademarks.
>>> 
>>> How exactly is it wrt trademark?
>> 
>> What do you mean?
> 
> I just don't remember seeing any ownCloud trademark usage guidelines.

Yes. It´s coming :-)

The content will be similar to the stuff from openSUSE or Fedora. Something like:
You can use the the ownCloud name and logo to promote ownCloud but you aren´t allowed to use it to sell tomatoes or to promote your Sharepoint Hosting. You should only use it as is and not change it to pink or put it upside down.
Something like that.
I hope we have it ready really soon.


Frank