On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:43:22 +0100, Melchior wrote in message <200901221243.23...@rk-nord.at>:
> * Jon S. Berndt -- Thursday 22 January 2009: > > > Bingo737 > > > Boing 314? > > That wouldn't work. It's too similar, as probably any court > will find. > > > > > Actually, David Slocombe had a good suggestion earlier. I'll > > formulate a letter to the Software Freedom Law Center and ask > > them for guidance. > > The problem isn't even so much complying with laws in multiple > countries, but avoiding to get sued. Unfortunately, these are > entirely different things. If that center says we are right, > and Boeing says we are not, then what?! Is anyone willing > to spend the money/time/nerves for a lawsuit, even if we > are confident to be on the right side? I think you made > a tactical mistake by writing in your letter "none of our > aircraft models are sold". Not only because it's wrong, but > also because this raised their expectations. They might have > agreed with a distribution under the GPL otherwise. > > But then again, I would not proactively avoid the trademark > Eurocopter or MBB in the bo105. It's plausible that I act > in good faith. I model an Eurocopter Bo105, after all, which > is perfectly legal. So calling it that, too, seems rather > obvious. It's like making a photo of a bo105 and labeling it > "Eurocopter Bo105" and distributing that. > > IANAL ..in proactive good faith, wouldn't the Bo105 have more or less, um, "descriptive" nicknames? ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
