On Friday, 02 December 2005, at 14:58:58 (+0900),
Carsten Haitzler wrote:

> well too bad then. thats how it is. the fact is that the default
> licenses didnt meet my needs/wants.

That's fine, but how do we know the extra language won't run into
legal trouble like the early BSD license did?

> there is no such thing as common law trademark last i checked. there
> is common law copyright though. trademarks must be explicitly
> redistered AND enforced.

http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/common.html

This is US law, of course.  I'm not sure about international law, but
I'd bet there are similar provisions there too.

Michael

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