[Ubuntu Chicago] Fwd: Will you PLEASE consider my proposal of use.

[Patrick Green]

Thank you so much for sharing Jim.

I gotta tell ya, the response from the budding entrepreneur is not really
making me feel warm and fuzzy.  I have dealt with Michelle and she is always
fair, clear, and reasonable in her professional dealings.  Canonical and
Ubuntu have done a lot of good and they have been VERY generous in allowing
other groups to incorporate the logo into a distro that is based on Ubuntu.
Professional partnerships are not all that difficult to obtain and allow you
to be a Canonical Partner.

However, and I speak as a partner, it is a contract between you and
Canonical that involves your product line with Ubuntu pre installed.  At the
point other individuals enter with their own hardware with no benchmark for
quality one could not promise Ubuntu would be represented well and the
similarity in name without proper benchmarks would impair Ubuntu's
reputation.

Cheers

Patrick



On Feb 1, 2008 7:00 AM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI - this is in regards to that "ourbuntu" computer sales thing from
> yesterday.
>
> Jim
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michelle Surtees-Myers <michelle at canonical.com>
> Date: Feb 1, 2008 6:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Will you PLEASE consider my proposal of use.
> To: support at ourbuntu.com
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for contacting us.
>
> As much we do appreciate your enthusiastic support of Ubuntu and
> appreciate the time and effort you devote to the project, we're afraid
> that there are trademark 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.
>
> Firstly, in terms of our trademark policy we do not allow the use of our
> trademarks with commercial intent.  Incidentally, the logo you have used
> is not the Ubuntu logo, but the Canonical logo, which is also trademark
> protected.  You also cannot use our logo in combination with other marks
> or logos.  It concerns us because, among other things, it implies a
> connection and endorsement that doesn't exist and we believe that this
> is potentially confusing to users.
>
> We do not permit our logo to be used in combination with other marks or
> logos and the Ourbuntu logo is in breach of this.
>
> We also do not allow the word Ubuntu to be used in a domain name or url.
> Ourbuntu is unfortunately in breach of this.
>
> Again,we'd like to stress that we appreciate your enthusiasm for Ubuntu,
> however, the Ubuntu name and logo (in product name, on website, etc) to
> refer to your own project (i.e, not Ubuntu) needs to be changed.We
> request therefore that you remove our logo from your website and other
> marketing materials and we cannot give you permission to use the domain.
>
> We trust that you will understand the importance of this. If you have
> any questions or would like to discuss it further, please let us know.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> The Trademark Team
>
>
> support at ourbuntu.com wrote:
> > I am just a guy who put together a free website for ubuntu based
> > computers. Its an auction style site. I got a little bit ahead of
> > myself and the next thing you know I may be violating your trademark
> > policy.
> >
> > I've worked very long and hard on the site and I think it could be a
> > great benefit to everyone including Ubuntu.
> >
> > I know the site name and logo may be very tough to approve but if you
> > really look at the site I'm doing nothing more than promoting your
> > operating system. I picked the name ourbuntu to represent "our" as in
> > community. With Ubuntu as the main Operating System.
> >
> > I really don't want to tear it all down and start over. Let me know
> > what I can do in order to have this approved.
> >
> > the website is    http://www.ourbuntu.com
> >
> > and please consider this exception to the trademark policy. Where you
> > said.
> >
> > While there may be exceptions, it is very unlikely that we will
> > approve Trademark use in the following cases:
> >
> >
> >
> > Remember I'm just trying to help buy and sell Ubuntu Systems for
> > everyone.
> >
>
>
> --
> Kind regards
>
> Michelle Surtees-Myers
> Canonical UK Ltd
> Tel: +44 207 630 2474   Fax: +44 207 630 2401
>
> Ubuntu - Linux for human beings
>
>
>
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