8 Aug
2009
8 Aug
'09
8:36 a.m.
On Friday 07 August 2009 21:15:39 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Thomas Vecchione wrote:
There is a reason. A scumbag company forced trademark issues to the front
even though they were doing FOSS. Trademarks in FOSS are just as bad as
software patents. Too bad most people do not get that.
Raymond
Once again forgot to hit Reply-All.
It's weekend :D.
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.
Okay, I guess you're right, because I have two web browsers, one is
called Firefox and the other is called Iceweasel, for me, as a user they
only differ by the name and logo and there seems to be a reason for this
;).