On 2020-10-29 9:22 a.m., Jean Louis wrote: > * Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> [2020-10-29 19:00]: >> >> On 2020-10-29 8:40 a.m., Jean Louis wrote: >> >>> Did you see other logos on GNU website? That is what I meant. And >>> there is no such thing as control of "free software logos" in the >>> context of trademarks, GNU and free software dedicated groups do not >>> follow trademark doctrines. Open source groups do. >>> >> >> GNU and free software *do* follow Trademark law. See e.g. >> https://www.gnu.org/graphics/agnuhead.html >> >> "The GNU head is, however, also a trademark for the GNU Project. If you >> want to use the GNU head to link to a website run by the Free Software >> Foundation or the GNU project, feel free, or if you're using it in >> contexts talking about GNU in a supportive and accurate way, you can >> also do this without permission. For any other requests, please ask >> <[email protected]> for permission first." > > Of course I know that. That is slightly beyond the point that I have > mentioned and tried to clarify. There is way how would FSF and GNU go > about the trademark violation and there is way how Mozilla or Rust > would go about trademark violations. > > FSF and GNU would most probably do no legal action against > perpetrator, RMS would give few public remarks if GNU software would > be used with proprietary software. Though I do not believe there would > be court process, threats or similar. It would be in the spirit of > friendship and friendly kind of ensuring observance. > > Legal option would be really the last. > > I am not representative for GNU. This is my opinion based on last 20 > years of observation. >
I don't think it has happened that proprietary software ever claimed to be GNU, but if that happened, the GNU project *would* take legal action if they couldn't first get voluntary compliance. The FSF is not opposed to legal enforcement of trademarks and copyrights (copylefts in this case). _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
