Peter Brown wrote: > By this definition FG would cease to exist. > Legislation does not define values, and commercial trademarks are just > that, commercial. The purpose of enforcing them is to protect their > _commercial_ business. It has nothing to do with personal moral, unless > you direct it in that manner.
Legislation is built on social values and enforces those. This is the origin of legislation. A trademark protects the interests of its owner in various ways. One of them is to protect from false association harming the reputation of a company, another is to establisch revenue from licensing it. There are more Whatever it is in the case of RB we have not the right to question it just to make it fit into what we think is right or wrong. Distributing trademarked items is wrong in terms of legal affairs the same way as violating the GPL is. Whoever does not care has no right to complain about FPS lack of adherance to the GPL. Why should they then... Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
