On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:33 +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> (Hmm... I wonder where the first try wen't.)
> 
> As a further note, I consider the restrictions on the name use
> retroactive: this is also an issue of trademark law, and as the
> author, I am the (unregistered) trademark holder for Ion, Ion3,
> etc.

IANAL, but I think you are too late to make a trademark claim against
modified or outdated versions of Ion3 not labelled as such, having
allowed them in the past.

> The new license and copyright law merely act as additional
> enforcement devices.

They certainly allow you to give rather more specific permissions and
restrictions to distributors than trademark law supports.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If God had intended Man to program,
we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.

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