[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >technology. Unfortunately, the company's trademark guide makes the >following restrictions on the use of the trademark: > >(1) the product (i.e. the Linux kernel) must display the trademark on >the splash screen (or in the About... box); >(2) the trademark must appear in all documentation, marketing and >promotional materials for the product; >(3) the product must be guaranteed to be compliant with the wireless >protocol; and >(4) the uses of the trademark must be approved by the company before >(each) distribution. > >I'd say we can't accept these terms ;-) > >What terms could we accept? If using that trademark has such restrictive conditions then I think it's obvious that we do not want to use it.
>It seems that these restrictions are incompatible with the GPL. On the >other hand, any trademark license would permit us to use their >trademark, which we could not do otherwise. With this understanding >these are not restrictions at all but liberations! The trademark license applies to the trademark, not to the code, so this is not relevant. >DFSG #4 permits licences that require derived works to carry a The DFSG is about copyright licenses, not trademarks. I object to using the DFSG to evaluate trademark licenses. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]