On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > If in doubt – in fact, even if not in doubt – it’s good to ask. > > Here’s an actual data point.
<snip> I agree with Jon on this - ideally we should be pro-active about asking for permission, even if we don't like the answer. We could send out a series of emails to all the trademark holders we can identify, starting with the airlines as the most obvious case of us using trademarks. I would be happy to draft a standard text describing FG and our use of trademarks, so it would be a case of a simple cut-and-paste and not much effort on our part. Obviously as soon as we do that we are increasing our visibility, and would really need to be prepared to respond and remove content if they said "no". I understand that is not really going to be acceptable to the "better to ask forgiveness than permission" side of the argument, so I'm just putting it out there as an option. No need to shoot it down. Trying to be a bit more constructive and to find a compromise, we could follow the JSBSim lead, and include some form of disclaimer that we are not connected or endorsed by any of the trademark holders whose trademarks are included in FG, and all trademarks are the property of their respective owners, yada yada yada. If we were feeling particularly keen we could include some defined process for trademark holders to contact us if they want their trademarks removed. It could be included in a README, and the manual. That would at least show any trademark holders that we're not attempting to rip them off. Jon - could you post the disclaimer text you eventually used? -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
