Dnia 25-01-2008, pią o godzinie 14:35 +0530, Rahul Sundaram pisze:
> Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> 
> > 
> > And that's stupid... Trademarks... Fedora is opensource, yep?
> > 
> > So why is it restricted with trademarks?
> 
> Free and open source licenses cover copyrights and not trademarks. 
> Trademarks are required to protect a brand and the brand is valuable 
> enough to be protected. Otherwise anyone could do a distribution that 
> wipes off hard disks and call it Fedora.  There are hundreds of 
> different FOSS projects where the brand is protected including the Linux 
> kernel, Apache, Mozilla Firefox and so on.

Thanks to trademarks Iceweasel and Icedove projets started... Because of
"opensource" and trademarks. They were patched Firefox and Thunderbird,
until war began.

-- 
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
http://liviopl.jogger.pl/

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