mikadoZero <mikadoz...@yandex.com> writes: > Jelle Licht writes: >> I really think that "software" is much too broad a category to consider >> for a trademark clash in this case. From what I can see, there is barely >> any overlap between our Guix and the GUIX product that Express Logic is >> working on. This might just be my vocational bias in action as a >> software engineer though, and of course; I Am Not A Lawyer. > > There was likely no overlap between Jade the free software project and > Jade the company's offerings. Regardless Jade the company forced Jade > the free software project to rename itself. >
It rather seems that under threat of litigation, the Jade project was bullied into changing their name. I understand why the Jade maintainers decided on the name change, but I think the wrong lesson to take home from this story is to actively enable these litigation-happy companies to continue this behaviour. Additionally, it seems Guix-the-project has earlier mentions than GUIX-the-product online as well (but again, IANAL).
