The copyright statement applies to the website contents, not the name. The name LilyPond could be considered to be a trademark, but that will vary according to the jurisdiction. There's no assertion of it being a trademark present on lilypond.org (at least that I can find), which would be very disadvantaeous where the law expects proactive defence of a trademark, as in the US. There's also no suggestion it's been registered as a trademark in any country.
In any case, a trademark does not give absolute monopoly over the use of the word, only in application the specific field concerned (hence Apple the computer company, and Apple the record label). This other site has nothing whatsoever to do with music notation, and it would be hard to argue that there's any real likelihood of confusion among users (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry). On 13:31, Mon 01 Jul 2013, Shane Brandes wrote: > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:31:20 -0400 > From: Shane Brandes <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Unkown LilyPond community. > To: Pierre Perol-Schneider <[email protected]> > Cc: lilypond-user <[email protected]> > List-Id: LilyPond user discussion <lilypond-user.gnu.org> > > I am surprised they did not bother to look around and simply declared > copyright to such a thing. After all LilyPond as we use it has been around > at least 10 years now. > Shane > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Pierre Perol-Schneider < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > While looking for some codes I just found this e-community few minutes ago: > > http://lilypond.media.mit.edu <http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/about> > > > > with a nice copyright : © 2011 LilyPond > > http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/about > > > > I'm surprised that one can use LilyPond's name that way. > > Any comments ? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
