Im a lawyer, altough i dont know US or EU laws; i think it will be a legal problem like Mandrake name case. We should immediately need to consider this. Also even name is not a legal matter than domain names could be give us headache.
2010/9/22 Marc Paré <[email protected]>: >>>> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect >>>> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong >>>> site. >>>> >>>> Is this going to be potential legal problem? >>>> >>>> Regards, Dave Hodgins >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mageia-discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mageia-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss >> >> Ohhh, that smells like..... Wach out! >> _______________________________________________ >> Mageia-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss > > I don't think we should worry about this right now. It has gone too far and > once we have the infrastructure up and going, changing names becomes a > trivial matter. > > It would surprise met if this were of any problems at all. A minerals > company found at mageia.com and a linux distro found at mageia.org are > simply too far apart in concept to be mistaken. > > It will become a problem if the term "Mageia" has been copywritten or > (heaven forbid) patented! by someone or a company. > > Having a site's name is not usually a problem. Laws differ depending of the > country you reside in. But they all seem to follow the same convention > (except for patent laws). > > Note that I am not a lawyer. > > Marc > > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss > _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
