On Friday 07 August 2009 20:53:05 Thomas Vecchione wrote: > Once again forgot to hit Reply-All. > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'm not interested to take sides, I only want to learn about the GPL. > > > > Assumed that Miss B. forks a GPL'd project, as far as I understand the > > GPL, Miss R. is allowed to fork a project with a similar name, similar > > function, based on the open source code of Miss B. and if Miss B. had no > > time to open the source code, because she was in the manicure salon, but > > Miss B. accepted the GPL, e.g. a mailing list for manicure software can > > witness this, than Miss R. is allowed to decompile the software of Miss > > B.. Am I wrong? > > You are confusing Copyright and Trademark Law. Copyright law says that yes > they can fork the project. > > Trademark Law however says that Miss B. is allowed to follow up legally to > prevent a trademark, which can be registered or unregistered, from being > confused by another similar trademark that might be confused with it. The > fact that the trademark is similar, and the product is similar, is doubly > damning in that case.
Then you should talk to Bob Keller for violating the trademark of that real company that has a possible trademark infringement case against him first. Think before you write. Raymond _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
