On Monday 11 November 2002 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So what if these guys did a white room implementation of XSP and came > up with a bright idea and said ... let's call it "XSP". There > doesn't appear to be much to stop them from doing this. Unless you > sue them to look at their code and see if it came from apache and > then they're in violation of the apache license.
Well, IANAL, but...: Indeed, that is a possibility, if there is Cocoon code in there, then they have probably violated the license. > My issue here is that there's nothing protecting apache about the > project names, No, then it would have to TMed, I think. > > I'd look into copyrighting some of these concepts in addition to the > license. This seems to be the one big whole IMO of opensource > projects. The license protects the usage of the code but the > copyright protects the usage of the concept/branding/etc. And right > now there doesn't appear to be any protection of the > concept/branding. No, because that, I think is pretty much a patents and trademark issue, not a copyright issue, if I've understood any of this right. Basically, you would have to apply for patents and trademarks, and make a huge effort, but there's very little to gain from it. I think the best we can do is to publicly scream bloody murder and "see these guys have ripped off an open project and tries to make a buck off of a small subset of it, can you believe anybody would pay for that?" Hopefully, nobody will. Again speaking as IANAL and only from what I've read in this thread. :-) Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
