Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute
Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute
Koha is a free library management system created by the Horowhenua Library
Trust in New Zealand. This software has been the subject of an ongoing
fight with a US company called LibLime, which seems to want to take the
software proprietary; LWN reported on this
dispute in 2010. Now the Horowhenua Library Trust is asking for
help; it seems that LibLime now thinks it is entitled to a trademark on
the Koha name in New Zealand. "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.
"