On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:06:00 +0100, HB-GRAL wrote in message <4d5d6388.1040...@sablonier.ch>:
> Am 17.02.11 18:30, schrieb Gene Lege: > > As I am sure many other people will point out, "fair use" is a > > specific provision of copyright law - it has absolutely nothing to > > do with trademark law. > > > > It looks like Red Bull has licenses to use their trademark for Apps > and Games. An example for this is "Red Bull Motocross": > > "Created & developed by Xendex. © 2010 Xendex Holding GmbH. All > Rights Reserved. Xendex is a registered trademark of Xendex Holding > GmbH. Published by Digital Chocolate. www.digitalchocolate.com © 2010 > Digital Chocolate. All Rights Reserved. The RED BULL trademark, the > RED BULL & Device trademark and Double Bull Device are trademarks of > Red Bull GmbH/Austria and used under license. Red Bull GmbH/Austria > reserves all rights therein and unauthorized uses are prohibited." > > When a company has licenses for the use of trademark in software and > has also such a marketing strategy maybe we should really care? ..we could ask Debian Legal, if Red Bull's license flies under DFSG ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines ) then we are ok, otherwise Debian will kick FG out of Main and either into non-free or _out_. ..e.g. Mozilla's trademark policy on Firefox, is non-DFSG, so it is forked and stripped of trademarks, as Iceweasel. http://www.debian.org/legal/ http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ ..and, how does Debian deal with abuse of Debian's own logo?: ;o) http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/11/msg00056.html -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
