RE: xen, xensource, community, logo, wiki and licencing (Was: Re: [Xen-users] Copyright Question (Logo))

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think Philipp raised an interesting question, as I was also 
> willing to use the logo as a basis for a community site logo.
> 
> This makes me ask a more general question on Intellectual Property : 
> Xen's source code is clearly under GPL, but logo, 
> documentation and even the yet-to-be-official wiki have no 
> mention of licence, owner nor of usage rights (see 
> http://www.debian.org/logos/ for an example).

Yep, we're working on this. We're in the process of taking legal advice
to create a trademark licensing policy.  Until that has been completed,
I don't wish to grant any licenses as it will just complicate things.
I'm hoping we'll be done in a couple of weeks or so -- please check
back. 

Best,
Ian

> I believe that is it the right moment to solve all possible 
> IP issues once and for all : Having a contributing community 
> is probably the biggest advantage Xen has against proprietary 
> solutions, and true community support can't happen serenely 
> if such things are not clear enough.

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