<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> On 5/27/21 10:19 AM, Serge Hallyn (ubuntu) wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20210527141902.GA24879@mail.hallyn.com"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 12:32:20AM -0500, José Antonio Rey wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hello all, As many of you might have heard, the freenode IRC network changed management a couple of days ago [1], in what I personally identify as a hostile takeover. As part of that, the Ubuntu IRC Council, supported by the Community Council, published a resolution [2] suggesting the move to Libera Chat. The former IRC Council and their successors immediately started working on moving our channels, users, and tooling over to Libera Chat. As of around 3:00 UTC today, freenode’s new management believed that our channel topics and messaging pointing users in the right direction were outside of their policy, and rather than consulting with the IRC Council, they performed yet another hostile takeover [3], this time of the Ubuntu namespaces, including flavors, as well as other spaces from projects who were also using freenode for communication. </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> Is that not a trademark issue? </pre> </blockquote> If this is a trademark issue, then it goes far beyond the IRC Council and into the Legal side of things to handle, and it's up to Canonical to determine if there's a trademark issue at play. (I asked Monica of the Community Team at Canonical to forward this to Katherine at Canonical Legal so she can read up on things, but by no means is this an official statement either way - I just simply forwarded this over.) Thomas </body> </html>