7 Aug
2009
7 Aug
'09
10:41 p.m.
Thomas Vecchione wrote:
Forgot to send to the list.
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede(a)gmail.com
<mailto:seablaede@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raymond Martin <laseray(a)gmail.com
<mailto:laseray@gmail.com>> wrote:
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.
Standard disclaimer of I am not a lawyer of course applies.
Seablade
I'm not interested to take sides, I only want to learn about the GPL.
Assumed that Miss B. forks a GPL'd project, as far as I understand the
GPL, Miss R. is allowed to fork a project with a similar name, similar
function, based on the open source code of Miss B. and if Miss B. had no
time to open the source code, because she was in the manicure salon, but
Miss B. accepted the GPL, e.g. a mailing list for manicure software can
witness this, than Miss R. is allowed to decompile the software of Miss
B.. Am I wrong?
If Miss B. would use GPL'd code and won't agree to the GPL, than Miss B.
is violating the GPL, but Miss R. isn't allowed to decompile the
software of Miss B., because of copyright laws. Am I wrong? But again,
Miss B. accepted the GPL, but while the nail polish needs to dry, she
wasn't able to distribute the source code, she only had time to
distribute the binary. She wrote exactly this to the manicure developers
mailing list, that's why Miss R. decided to decompile the code.
The situation is a little bit tricky and Miss R. is less liked by the
manicure developers list, while Miss B. is liked by the list. And that's
why little differences are easily overlooked.
Justizia should be blindfolded ;) and even take care of little differences.
Ralf