Le vendredi 08 octobre 2010 à 11:50 +0200, Stéphane Téletchéa a écrit : > Just to ensure we will not encompass the mandrake story again, check > http://www.mageia.com ...
We had a quite long and complex research to find a name : https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20100920/000315.html Then we indeed stumbled on the fact that the .com was used but this was not seen as a problem since there is a lot of precedent in free software : apache.com is not affiliated with apache.org (.com registered before .org ) ubuntu.com is not affiliated with ubuntu.org (.org registered 2 years before .com ) gnome.com is not affiliated with gnome.org (.com 2 years before .org ) python.com is not affiliated with python.org (.com 1 year before .org) I just took the biggest projects I could think, but afaik, none of them had a problem based on dns alone. To have a problem like Mandrakesoft or Mobilix had, the problem need to be taken from a trademark point of view. And if you look on the list I gave, this was checked ( now, we forgot to check association name, but we worked around it quite easily ). People asked the question in the past : https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20100921/000567.html So yes, we are aware. It is like computer security, just a question of evaluating the risk. And I think we are not doing much harm to them ( and that we do not want ), neither the do to us. This is basically a brick and mortar shop. The trademark law is quite clear, you have to explicitly tell the domain of your mark, and so does the DNS system ( ie, you have to use a tld ). And you are you aware you are sending html mail on this list :) ? -- Michael Scherer
