[Koha] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha

[Patricia F Anderson]

I blogged about this last week, and the extensive comments help
explain some of the views and issues and personalities involved. Very
interesting.

<https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/liblime-versus-koha-what-is-the-libraryland-opposite-of-open-source/>

 - Patricia

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Mitchell, Michael
<Michael.Mitchell at brazosport.edu> wrote:
> I think everyone ought to think long and hard before patronizing PTFS/Liblime. This sounds like a huge betrayal to the trust of the community.
>
>
> Michael Mitchell
> Technical Services Librarian
> Brazosport College
> Lake Jackson, TX
> Michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 12:55 PM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] [Koha] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha
>
> I don't think that is silly at all.
>
> You should definitely contact the EFF, if you haven't already, and also the Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org/>. You might also want to talk to the Software Freedom Law Center <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/>. While they might not be able to help you directly, they might be able to give you some advice and/or a referral.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cary
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jason Sherman <jsherman at usao.edu> wrote:
>> This may be a silly question, but have you considered contacting the
>> Electronic Frontier Foundation to ask for assistance?
>>
>> https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance
>>
>> 2011/11/21 Joann Ransom <jransom at library.org.nz>:
>>> As I am sure most of you are aware, Horowhenua Library Trust is the
>>> birth place of Koha and the longest serving member of the Koha
>>> community. Back in
>>> 1999 when we were working on Koha, the idea that 12 years later we
>>> would be having to write an email like this never crossed our minds.
>>> It is with tremendous sadness that we must write this plea for help
>>> to you, the other members of the Koha community.
>>>
>>> The situation we find ourselves in, is that after over a year of
>>> battling against it, PTFS/Liblime have managed to have their
>>> application for a Trademark on Koha in New Zealand accepted. We now
>>> have 3 months to object, but to do so involves lawyers and money. We
>>> are a small semi rural Library in New Zealand and have no cash spare
>>> in our operational budget to afford this, but we do feel it is something we must fight.
>>>
>>> For the library that invented Koha to now have to have a legal battle
>>> to prevent a US company trademarking the word in NZ seems bizarre,
>>> but it is at this point that we find ourselves.
>>>
>>> So, we ask you, the users and developers of Koha, from the birth
>>> place of Koha, please if you can help in anyway, let us know.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Jo.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joann Ransom RLIANZA
>>> Head of Libraries,
>>> Horowhenua Library Trust.
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Koha mailing list  http://koha-community.org Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jason Sherman
>> Systems Librarian
>> University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
>> 405.574.1340
>> _______________________________________________
>> Koha mailing list  http://koha-community.org Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
>>
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> --
> Cary Gordon
> The Cherry Hill Company
> http://chillco.com
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