7 Aug
2009
7 Aug
'09
11:15 p.m.
Thomas Vecchione wrote:
I agree, that's why laws are construable, have some margin. It's
impossible to factor in every devisable situation.
Everybody seems to understand the GPL and the law after that long
discussion for this basic issues. Here is a basic issue, with an unusual
exception. I guess even two judges could pronounce two different
sentences, in the same town, at the same court.
Ralf
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 ;).
Icevamp or Hotvamp instead of Improvisor might be an alternative.
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.
This is much greyer area to tell the truth, and one I won't touch.