Hieronder de reactie van Canonical.<br><br>Ik heb geen idee wanneer dit intern rond zou zijn, maar het lijkt me het best om hierop te wachten totdat we groen licht hebben.<br>Hebben we nog informatie nodig van Jona Bacon?<br>
<br>Ronnie<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michelle Surtees-Myers</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michelle@canonical.com">michelle@canonical.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:54 PM<br>Subject: Re: Question about the use of the trademark name Ubuntu<br>To: Ronnie van den Crommenacker <<a href="mailto:ronnie.vd.c@ubuntu.com">ronnie.vd.c@ubuntu.com</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:jono.bacon@canonical.com">jono.bacon@canonical.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:jono.bacon@canonical.com">jono.bacon@canonical.com</a>><br>
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Hi Ronnie,<br>
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Thank you for contacting us. <br>
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We want to support you in establishing your foundation, however, a
special license is required for this, and we are currently working
on this. We will need to have some further discussions in this
regard.<br>
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If you need any more information, please contact our Community
Manager, Jono Bacon (cc'd here).<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Michelle<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 17/07/11 22:43, Ronnie van den Crommenacker wrote:
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<small><font face="Ubuntu">Dear Canonical,<br>
<br>
Ubuntu-NL has a question about the use of the trademark name
'Ubuntu' in the name for the legal entity (a non profit
foundation), we are establishing to support our LoCo community
in its endeavors.<br>
<br>
The name we would like to use for the foundation is:
"Stichting Ondersteuning Ubuntu-NL" freely translated to
"Foundation to support Ubuntu-NL"<br>
<br>
The reasons why Ubuntu-NL needs an legal entity, a non profit
foundation:<br>
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<ul>
<li><small><font face="Ubuntu">In the Netherlands it is
impossible to open a bank account without a legal entity.
No bank account makes endeavors that involve money like
organizing events, create promotion material, get
sponsorship to buy cd's etc. quite hard to organize.</font></small></li>
<li><small><font face="Ubuntu">Sponsorship of a non profit
foundation is very interesting for companies who then
receive part of the sponsorship back as a result of
special tax regulations in the Netherlands.</font></small></li>
<li><small><font face="Ubuntu">People organizing events need
liability insurance. Without means Ubuntu-NL cannot
provide any help for volunteers getting insured.</font></small></li>
<li><small><font face="Ubuntu">The communities goods are managed
by a group of people instead of one person.</font></small></li>
<li><small><font face="Ubuntu">Ubuntu-NL needs to be a legal
entity to be able to make contracts with other parties.
For example to be able as a community to arrange website
hosting. Without a legal entity such contracts need to be
on the name of a single person what gives problems if this
person wants to get rid of the contract etc.</font></small></li>
</ul>
<small><font face="Ubuntu">We already have taken care of the<br>
insurance policy, financials and the foundation board. All the<br>
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paperwork has been done. All we need is clearance about the
name<br>
of the foundation.<br>
Since Canonical owns the Ubuntu trademark we need permission
to use the term Ubuntu in the name of the foundation:
"Stichting Ondersteuning Ubuntu-NL" (translated: Foundation to
support Ubuntu-NL). Can you give our community permission to
use the term "Ubuntu" in this name of the foundation?<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Ronnie van den Crommenacker<br>
Loco-contact of Ubuntu-NL<br>
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Kind regards
Michelle Surtees-Myers
Canonical Group Ltd
Ubuntu - Linux for human beings
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