> You can enforce your trademark and release a package under the GPL. The > trademark is not an additional restriction as discussed in the GPL because > it has nothing to do with copyright. Adding a seperate file saying > "Fooglefont is a registered trademark of Geoffrey Washburn and may not be > used without permission" would not make your package incompatible with the > GPL. However, I suggest that you either study up on trademark law (or > consult an attorney), give up the trademark, of forget about attaching it > to your package. Trademark law is very different from copyright law.
You do have a good point that perhaps a trademark is not the best or appropriate way to provide the protection I seek. I'm mainly interested in having some way of ensuring that if my fonts are repackaged by others (say as part of teTeX or MikTeX) that when the user specifies that they want their document set in Fooglefont, that it won't be typeset in some unofficial derivative version of Fooglefont. Maybe I'm just going to need to rely on people to be sensible. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
