Re: Viewer for OpenOffice on iOS

[Louis Suárez-Potts <lu...@gmail.com>]

Top Post:
I wrote to the company—one guy—and politely asked him to abide by Apache's (and more particularly AOO's) provisions. I did this via LinkedIn, as a direct email to him didn't work. In my note, I cc'd the PMC private list. No news yet!—and I wrote him last year, too! :-)

-louis


On 12-12-31, at 14:25 , Louis Suárez-Potts <lu...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 12-12-31, at 12:05 , Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 12-12-31, at 11:53 , Rob Weir <ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 31, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Armin Le Grand <ar...@me.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Hi List,
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>>>>> my wife showed me the following link which leads to the AppStore, to an AOO ODF format raeder application nicely using the AOO logo, link is
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>>>>> https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/ooreader/id480844649?mt=8
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>>>> Interesting. But does anyone recall giving permission to use the logo?
>>>> The way they are using it appears (to me at least) a relationship
>>>> with the AOO project which is unwarranted.
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>>> I checked if we'd granted them permission to use OpenOffice.org logo etc back in the day but came up with no record of that. (It would be in the logos@ openofficedotorg list, a private one but archived, or was, once.) BML Solutions is evidently based in Montreal, thus, as the loonie flies, not far from me. I can contact them and ask them about this, as well as their general work, and ask them to work with us, as we require all to do.
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>> Do you get any sense of whether their app involves any AOO code at
>> all?   IMHO, it would be hard to justify giving permission to use the
>> logo if the app involved neither the community nor the code.
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> I don't know about the code, haven't checked (busy). I was simply going to ask the developer, and point him to the published principles governing use of the trademark. I can cc this or any list when I do that. 
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> louis
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