On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:09:39PM -0800, Daniel Wilkerson wrote: >> >> This is just a fact about the ownership of names. > > No one has ownership of the 8-letters libdwarf.
Do you have ownership of your name? The name "libdwarf" is somehow special in that no one owns it, whereas other names may be owned? >> There is a reason the concept of trademark exists. > > libdwarf isn't a trademark. I just spoke to my lawyer about it and there is no reason that it is not a trademark; note that it does not have to be registered to be a trademark. All the core elements of a trademark seem to be there. He isn't quite sure how it would go in court -- in particular the original author of libdwarf would have to assert it, not someone else -- but you certainly cannot claim without qualification that it is not a trademark. Again, Mozilla changed Firebird to Firefox name because Firebird was taken already, so generally not stomping on other people's project names, even in the opens source world where we are not always trading in money, is considered a practice that has value. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Elftoolchain-developers mailing list Elftoolchain-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/elftoolchain-developers
