New Project name of Ubuntu Muslim Edition

Abdelmonam Kouka abdelmonam.kouka at gmail.com
Lun 16 Mar 20:43:48 UTC 2009


2009/3/16 Nizar Kerkeni <nizar.kerkeni at gmail.com>

> Bonjour,
> Qu'est ce qu'il y a eu comme changement dans la politique de canonical
> pour que des noms comme ça ne sont plus autorisés ?
> Amicalement

Voici le mail de la part de Mehdi l'admin du projet, il contient
l'explication:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <jmehdi at ubuntume.com>
Date: 2009/1/21
Subject: [UbuntuME] [Fwd: Re: Ubuntu Muslim Edition]
To: ubuntume.team at lists.launchpad.net
Cc: ubuntume at googlegroups.com



Canonical contacted us last may, but the email was sent to Rashid, and
either he didn't get it or didn't forward it  :(

so let's go for a new name!

Mehdi


----- Forwarded message from michelle at canonical.com -----
   Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:42:34 +0000
   From: Michelle Surtees-Myers <michelle at canonical.com>
Reply-To: Michelle Surtees-Myers <michelle at canonical.com>
 Subject: [Fwd: Re: Ubuntu Muslim Edition]
     To: jmehdi at ubuntume.com

Dear Mehdi,

Thank you for contacting us.

I have attached below the original response I sent to a member of your
team with regard to the request to use Ubuntu Muslim Edition.  I got
this name from your website.

As you can see, my email was sent in May 2008.

Unfortunately we cannot allow you to use Ubuntu Muslim Edition. The word
Edition has a very specific meaning for the Ubuntu project and we do not
allow different projects to refer to editions.

The attached email outlines our position in more detail.

I am sorry for any work that you will have to do to change the name, but
as I said, I did write to you last year about this.

I trust that you understand our position in this regard.

Kind regards,

Michelle



-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: Ubuntu Muslim Edition
Date:   Thu, 01 May 2008 12:41:26 +0100
From:   Michelle Surtees-Myers <michelle at canonical.com>
To:     rashid786 at gmail.com
CC:     Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv at canonical.com>
References:     <47FB5BD1.2050009 at canonical.com>



To whom it may concern,

I hope that I am contacting the right person in this regard, but if not,
please let me know who I should contact. I work as part of the Trademark
team at Canonical.

While we greatly appreciate your enthusiasm for Ubuntu, and appreciate
the time and effort you devote to the project, I'm afraid there are
trademark related issues with your project. We've tried to define a
reasonable trademark policy that allows people to customise Ubuntu, and
use the marks to promote the project, while at the same preserving the
integrity of the marks.  In case you haven't seen it, that policy is at

 http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy

There are trademark issues with the Ubuntu Muslim Edition and to the url
ubuntume.

In terms of our trademark policy, we do not allow the use of the word
Edition. Edition is a special word in the Ubuntu project and calling
something an Edition implies that this is part of the Ubuntu project,
which is not the case and is therefore misleading.  We certainly
encourage people to make custom versions of Ubuntu, and we have
established the "remix" concept and terminology to allow use of the
trademark if the changes are minimal or include only software from the
Ubuntu repositories.

We also do not allow the use of Ubuntu in a url as again this implies an
official link to the Ubuntu project which is misleading. In this case
there is an obvious clash with our own UME, which is confusing.

Again, I'd like to stress that we appreciate your enthusiasm for Ubuntu,
and that the basic activities of what you are doing is fine - it's one
of the freedoms and powers provided by open source software.  But I'm
afraid that using the Ubuntu name and logo (in product name, on website,
etc) to refer to your own product/project simply doesn't work and needs
to be changed.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,


Michelle

-- 
Kind regards

Michelle Surtees-Myers
Canonical UK Ltd
Tel: +44 207 630 2474   Fax: +44 207 630 2401

Ubuntu - Linux for human beings




-- 
Kind regards

Michelle Surtees-Myers
Canonical UK Ltd
Tel: +44 207 630 2474   Fax: +44 207 630 2401

Ubuntu - Linux for human beings



----- End forwarded message -----







>
>
> 2009/3/16 Abdelmonam Kouka <abdelmonam.kouka at gmail.com>:
> > السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته،
> >
> > (English version is below, forward the information please)
> >
> > منذ أكثر من شهر ونصف (تحديدا في 21 جانفي 2009) أرسلت Canonical رسالة
> email
> > إلى فريق النسخة الإسلامية لأوبونتو تطلب فيها تغيير اسم التوزيعة واسم
> النطاق
> > لأنها تتعارض مع سياسة العلامات التجارية التي وضعتها:
> >
> > “We've tried to define a reasonable trademark policy that allows people
> to
> > customise Ubuntu, and
> >
> > use the marks to promote the project, while at the same preserving the
> > integrity of the marks.”
> >
> > عندها قام الفريق باتخاذ الخطوات التالية:
> >
> > 1) تبادل الأفكار ، والبحث عن الأسماء التي لم يسبق استخدامها
> >
> > 2) التصويت
> >
> > وبعد اختيار التسمية الجديدة انطلقت المرحلة الثالثة:
> >
> > 3) العمل على تحديث جميع النصوص والصور
> >
> > و الآن، يسرّ فريق النسخة الإسلامية لأوبونتو أن يعلن لكم على بركة الله
> الإسم
> > الجديد للتوزيعة ألا وهو: "سبيلي". وسيكون الشعار الجديد:
> >
> > (قل هذه سبيلي أدعو إلى الله على بصيرة أنا ومن اتبعني)
> >
> > -وهو الجزء الأول من الآية 108 من سورة يوسف-
> >
> > نرجو من كافة الأخوة والأخوات تمرير المعلومة، كما نرجو من كل من يرى في
> نفسه
> > القدرة على مد يد المساعدة في التطوير (تطوير البرامج الإسلامية أو تصميمات
> > الجرافيكس)، أو من له أفكار جديدة للتوزيعة أن لا يتردد في الإتصال بنا عن
> > طريق:
> >
> > * المجموعة البريدية للمساعدة التقنية الخاصة بالمشروع:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntume?hl=en&pli=1
> >
> > * المجموعة البريدية الخاصة بالتطوير:
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/sabily
> >
> > لمزيد من المعلومات حول المشروع الرجاء زيارة موقع الواب الخاص به:
> >
> > http://www.ubuntume.com/
> >
> > Assalamo alaykom wa rahmato Allah wa baraketoh,
> >
> > For more than a month and a half (specifically, on 21 January 2009)
> > Canonical sent an email to the Ubuntu Muslim Edition team requesting to
> > change the project name and the URL of the web site because they are
> > inconsistent with its trademark policy:
> > “We've tried to define a reasonable trademark policy that allows people
> to
> > customise Ubuntu, and
> > use the marks to promote the project, while at the same preserving the
> > integrity of the marks.”
> >
> > So, the team took the following steps:
> > 1) brainstorming, finding names which are not already used
> > 2) voting
> > And after the selection of the new name, launched the third phase:
> >
> > 3) working on updating all text and pictures
> >
> > And now, the Ubuntu Muslim Edition team is pleased to announce the new
> name
> > of the distro:
> >
> > "سبيلي" == "my way."
> >
> > The new slogan will be:
> >
> > (قل هذه سبيلي أدعو إلى الله على بصيرة أنا ومن اتبعني)
> >
> > which means "This is my way; I invite unto Allah with sure knowledge, I
> and
> > whosoever follows me..."
> > -It is the first part of the verse 108 from Surat Yusuf-
> >
> > We ask all brothers and sisters to forward this information, and we hope
> to
> > receive your help in the development of the project (the development of
> > Islamic software and/or graphics design), or by giving new ideas for the
> > distro. Please don't hesitate to contact us via:
> > * Technical support mailing list for the project:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntume?hl=en&pli=1
> > * Development mailing list:
> > https://launchpad.net/sabily
> >
> > For more information about the project please visit the Web site:
> >
> > http://www.ubuntume.com/
> >
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