I'm forwarding a thread I had started on spf-private to spf-discuss
I had first posted this message to spf-private, in order to allow folks
there to feel comfortable shooting this down completely, and in private
even, if they objected to that extent.
Since then it was suggested that this conversation go to spf-discuss, so
I'm forwarding along the entire thread.
I've updated the url since the conversation. The version of the
standards mentioned below and the version Julian had responded to on
spf-private is now at
http://www.openpatents.org/certification_mark_standards_v0.04.html .
And as a side note, since then, Scott has placed the mark at
http://www.kitterman.com/spf/source.html
http://www.controlledmail.com/
http://www.kitterman.com/spf/source.html
(I appreciate Scott's willingness to use the mark.)
And that may be enough, assumming these examples are accepted as meeting
uspto requirements. But it's better to have more examples than just
enough or too few, so..
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:56:19PM -0400, Mark Shewmaker wrote:
I'm right at the last minute and at a deadline related to a US
application for a certification mark on "Open Patent".
This is all part of a project of mine (anyone want to help with
it? :-) ) where one of the main goals is to end up with a workable
patent license that operates for patents similarly to how the GPL
works for software.
Related to all this is the notion that the certification mark
"Open Patent" can be applied to products/services that are licensed in a
certain rather friendly way. (Obviously with goods and services
for which this other patent license is used, but it's not just limited
to that one license, just as code can be licensed under a copyright
license other than the GPL and still be considered to be "Free
Software", even by the FSF.)
In any event, it happens that Open Source/Free Software code would be
compatible with this "Open Patent" certification mark in many cases.
I have the standards at
http://www.openpatents.org/certification_mark_standards.html
at the moment.
And what I'm *really* needing is to show the mark in-use. (That's the
timing deadline I'm right at.)
I'm asking Scott about doing so on his website for some of his code and
online record testers.
I also want to ask if there would be any objection to using the mark in
a couple pages on the openspf.org site. Specifically doing these
changes:
Firstly, for http://www.openspf.org/Software , I would suggest/request a
change to the following headings:
Changing:
=======================
[[##postfix-policyd-spf-perl]] postfix-policyd-spf-perl
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to:
=======================
[[##postfix-policyd-spf-perl]] postfix-policyd-spf-perl - An
[[http://openpatents.org/|Open Patent™]] program
=======================
And changing
=======================
[[##python-postfix-policyd-spf]] python-postfix-policyd-spf
=======================
to
=======================
[[##python-postfix-policyd-spf]] python-postfix-policyd-spf -
An [[http://openpatents.org/|Open Patent™]] program
=======================
Secondly, in http://www.openspf.org/Tools , I would suggest/request
Changing:
=======================
It uses the [[http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pyspf|Python SPF
''(pySPF)'' library]], which is fully compliant with the
[[Specifications|SPF specification]]. MTA services for this test are
provided by ''[[http://www.controlledmail.com|Controlled
Mail]]''.</wiki>
=======================
to:
=======================
It uses the [[http://openpatents.org/|Open Patent™]]
[[http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pyspf|Python SPF
''(pySPF)'' library]], which is fully compliant with the
[[Specifications|SPF specification]]. MTA services for this test are
provided by ''[[http://www.controlledmail.com|Controlled
Mail]]''.
This is an [[http://openpatents.org/|Open Patent™]] service.
</wiki>
=======================
Would these changes be okay with folks?
--
Mark Shewmaker
mark(_at_)primefactor(_dot_)com
770-933-3250
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