8 Aug
2009
8 Aug
'09
8:34 a.m.
On Friday 07 August 2009 20:53:05 Thomas Vecchione wrote:
Then you should talk to Bob Keller for violating the trademark of that real
company that has a possible trademark infringement case against him
first.
Think before you write.
Raymond
Once again forgot to hit Reply-All.
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net>wrote;wrote:
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?
You are confusing Copyright and Trademark Law. Copyright law says that yes
they can fork the project.
Trademark Law however says that Miss B. is allowed to follow up legally to
prevent a trademark, which can be registered or unregistered, from being
confused by another similar trademark that might be confused with it. The
fact that the trademark is similar, and the product is similar, is doubly
damning in that case.