Leif Hedstrom wrote:
> Traffic Server would like to resolve the TradeMark issues.
> Who would be able to make this call?
The relevant content is:
> Y! holds several TMs for the name "Traffic Server", most of which
> expires soon. Our legal team has proposed two possible solutions,
> the first being the easiest for us.
> 1. Yahoo! provides ASF with a letter of assurance stating that we
> own all right, title and interest in and to the TRAFFIC SERVER
> mark and the four active registrations and that we will not take
> any action against ASF or any of its licensees during the life of
> these registrations (and we'd express our intention of letting
> them lapse and expire in this letter).
> 2. Yahoo! will assign all right, title and interest in and to the
> TRAFFIC SERVER mark including the four active registrations to
> ASF [though we'd probably want to make this contingent on getting
> through the incubator stage].
We can run this through Apache Legal, but my take is that we'd prefer option
#2, which is the same route that I believe was previously used for
SpamAssassin.
One issue, as I understand it, is that the ASF probably should not be
letting marks lapse, and should be maintaining them. But those aspects
ought to be ASF-wide, and would come from Apache Legal.
Does anyone else have an opinion? Please do offer it. :-)
--- Noel
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