As trivial as it sounds, this is probably one of our main marketing initiatives - SeaMonkey is a community project, so we need to do community marketing mainly: Our community is not only what makes it possible to keep the project alive, our community is also who needs to spread the word about SeaMonkey.
Once we have that policy up at our project page, we want to put up a good collection of logos and buttons for people to use to link to our project. That leads me to a first real point about SeaMonkey marketing. We're currently in the process of finishing up a trademark policy for using our marks, very much modeled after the ubuntu one. MoFo people share our opinion on trademark and copyright being two different things and so we can publish trademarked imagery and names under the tri-license (which only covers copyright). Thanks to Frank Hecker and Gervase Markham from MoFo for helping us so much in this regard.Īlso, I want to ensure that those trademarks do not mean that anything in our source base will not be covered by the MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license in the future.
MOZILLA SEAMONKEY BRANDING SOFTWARE
A lot of time, given the fast life of the software industry.ĭue to our request, the Mozilla Foundation (MoFo) currently is exploring doing trademark filings for SeaMonkey in Europe and Japan as well.
IIRC, even some "Star Trek" figure once said that bureaucracy is a constant in this universe - and as one can easily see here, it also takes time. And you might have seen some results of those thoughts already.īefore mentioning details about that, some short remarks about the trademarks: Even with that status, and about 6 months after the Mozilla Foundation filed the trademark applications, those marks are not officially registered yet but that should happen unless there's some opposition to that. Now that the USPTO lists both our trademarks (for the word "SeaMonkey" and our logo) with a current status of "Application has been published for opposition", I started to think of more ways to spread the word about our software and do some SeaMonkey marketing.
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