"Lawrence E. Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was trying to point out that you CAN'T ALLOW someone to use your name > -- e.g., ALL uses, even friendly ones, are misuses -- because it is YOUR > trademark and not theirs. If you allow a third party who creates a > derivative work to market that derivative work under your trademark, > without exercising control over the quality of his derivative works, you > will lose your trademark. It is okay for a third party to say his > derivative work is "compatible with" Apache, or "equivalent in > functionality to" Apache, or "meets the specifications of" Apache, or > even that it is "better than" Apache, but it is NOT okay for him to > market his derivative work "as" Apache. Apache should not allow anyone > else to adopt its trademark for their software! (The word "should" in > that last sentence is as close as I'm going to come to giving > unsolicited legal advice to Apache.) "OSI Certified" is a certification mark, a kind of trademark. Yet open source software authors can claim their software to be "OSI Certified", not just "equivalent to OSI Certified". This doesn't constitute abandonment of the trademark -- does it? --
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? phil hunt
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Brian Behlendorf
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Lawrence E. Rosen
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Eric Jacobs
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Dave J Woolley
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? phil hunt
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Brian Behlendorf
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Lawrence E. Rosen
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Dave J Woolley
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Eric Jacobs
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? John Cowan
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Lawrence E. Rosen
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Brian Behlendorf
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Frank LaMonica
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? John Cowan
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Brian Behlendorf
- RE: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Dave Gilbert
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? John Cowan
- Re: namespace protection compatible with the OSD? Chloe Hoffman