On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > Em Sexta-feira 24 Setembro 2010, às 17:45:54, Carsten Munk escreveu: >> 2010/9/24 Greg KH <[email protected]>: >> > And, to answer the private question a few people have asked me, "why are >> > you asking all of these questions, why not just not use the MeeGo name >> > at all?" Well, it's about recognizing the contributions of those that >> > you build something on. I know not all people/companies do that all the >> > time (present drivers of MeeGo included), but some of us want to do the >> > "right thing" here. >> >> The interesting question is also, in good open source spirit: >> >> How can I, take meego-handset-dialer, put it in my distro, replacing >> the artwork with my own non-MeeGo artwork, while still crediting the >> original work being done by the authors? Should I rename it to >> handset-dialer? > > I would *personally* say that you're allowed to credit MeeGo whenever you take > something from MeeGo. What you can't do is use the name in a way that confuses > people, such as naming your product "Something MeeGo" or the inverse. > > The use of the name "meego" in packages is something I wonder about, even for > MeeGo's own packages (meego-panel, meegotouch, etc.). If I use meegotouch and > make an application that won't run on MeeGo, what happens? How can I say I'm > running meego-panel if the experience is different from what one would expect > on a MeeGo netbook?
google and others don't have issues with the use of their name in packages and Red Hat legal has never highlighted it as a issue for other packages that use names. It is a direct form of credit. Peter Peter _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
