Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:25:30AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: As usual for trademark claims, the complainer greatly overstates the rights actually available to trademark owners[1]. Briefly stated, establishing a valid trademark entitles you to

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:50:21PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Trademark law never requires any such thing. When you are distributing a product which is similar, but not identical, to the product of the trademark holder, using the trademark to

Re: Monkey's Audio License Agreement

2007-09-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070907 03:10]: All rights not expressly granted here are reserved by Matthew T. Ashland. - All materials and programs copyrighted ??2000-2006 by Matthew T. Ashland - - All rights reserved. - It's not clear where the license ends; All rights reserved

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:50:21PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Perhaps you don't understand that it's our position that Debian and its derivers need to have the freedom to make modifications to the browser without being obligated to either get prior approval from Mozilla Corp. for each

Re: A use case of GPLv3 section 7b

2007-09-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 06 septembre 2007 à 22:49 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:02:31 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: [...] I think the authors have completely misunderstood the purpose of section 7. This section doesn't allow to add further restrictions, but to add further

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-07 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Rick Moen wrote: Pepsico doesn't ask the Coca-Cola Company's permission to publish claims that its sugar-water is better tasting than is Coca-Cola. That ought to be a big, fat clue, but far too many people have been successfully conned and don't think about the

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ken Arromdee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Rick Moen wrote: Pepsico doesn't ask the Coca-Cola Company's permission to publish claims that its sugar-water is better tasting than is Coca-Cola. That ought to be a big, fat clue, but far too many people have been

Re: Trademark scope (just for the record)

2007-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, Rick Moen wrote: I was not suggesting that was the case. Read what I _said_, please. I was pointing out one huge clue, from the realm of everyday commerce, that should have alerted Debian users to the fact that, no, it is not true that one must ask a trademark owner's

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 9/6/07, Shriramana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to search for this licensewise? Thanks. S:R) Google seems to index packages.debian.org, so perhaps something like: site:packages.debian.org inurl:copyright CC-3.0-BY -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To