8 Aug
2009
8 Aug
'09
8:33 a.m.
On Friday 07 August 2009 20:10:14 you wrote:
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raymond Martin
<laseray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Another fool. Trademarks apply to commercial interests, the program is
non-commercial in nature. Thus it would be very difficult for anything
to be done about this for creating a free program from a free program.
Maybe you should check the fact that there is already another program called
improvisor that exists that is not Impro-Visor, it is a commercial company
that could claim trademark infringement against Impro-Visor.
So if anybody is in a problem it will be Impro-Visor first.
Raymond
Not at all. There is even evidence in the FSF
documentation somewhere
exactly
about this point and they vehemently disagree with any attitude like
that. We
all know very well the situation of Emacs, Xemacs, and various other
forks.
The FSF is not the law. I suggest you look up Trademark Law to realize why
you are wrong, and why you are subject to a lawsuit for knowingly creating
a product that is infringing on an already existing trademark(Regeristered
or Unregeristered would make a small, but only small, difference in this
case), and can easily be confused as such. In fact the case against
forcing you to change it is rather strong because not only is your product
nearly identical in name, it is nearly identical in function and can be
easily confused with the original.