Re: opie trademark

Hey George,
Yes, I personally did start an opieII project with te Qtopia 4 source code.

It was my understanding that handhelds.org was merely a host for 
projects - like sourceforge.


George France wrote:
 > Hi Lorn,
 >
 > That is not very accurate.  There is nothing new going on. Opie has 
always been a trademark of handhelds.org, please see:
 >
 >     http://www.handhelds.org/legal
 >
 > It is now a "registered" trademark, as part of some legal house 
cleaning.  A formal trademark usage policy for trademarks should be 
posted on http://www.handhelds.org, near the 1st of the month after the 
legal folks have finished their review.  I expect it to be very similar 
to the ubuntu policy.

except ubuntu is a distribution not a site that hosts open source projects.

 > ..and no it is not "all" the projects, as you are implying...
 >
 > I would however appreciate that you disclose any conflict of interest 
when posting such messages.  I believe you attempted to started an 
"opieII" project at another site?

There is no conflict of interest, I am still a member of Opie at 
handhelds.org.


 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 >
 > --George France
 > CEO, Handhelds.org, Inc.
 > One of the founders of handhelds.org, 1999.
 >
 > On Sunday 13 May 2007 03:10 am, Lorn Potter wrote:
 >> Just a heads up to all.
 >> George France has taken it upon himself to trademark the names of
 >> projects hosted by handhelds.org.
 >>
 >> This was filed March 6, 2007.
 >>
 >> Serial Number      77123610
 >>
 >>
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-- 
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech

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