On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Robinson wrote: >> Is this a commercial vs open source community distro license agreement >> or allowance? I'm somewhat confused! Do Linpus have an exception to >> the requirements of using connman or do they provide (and are allowed >> to do so) a library to provide an api glue between the two? Or are >> they wrongly advertising features that they can't "legally" provide if >> they wish to adhere to the current >> >> Presumably Linpus adhere to the LF's agreement to use the trademarks >> as is currently announced or otherwise I've apparently missed >> something or some process announcement. > > I suspect that this is an invalid assumption on your part. I bet that > Linpus didn't consider that there was any need to ask for trademark > approval after this change. The interesting bit will be to see what the > reaction will be now that you have (officially) made everyone aware of > this potential trademark infringement. > > Also worth noting is that Linpus operates primarily in China, and > trademark protections are not so strong there... is this something to > bear in mind? I don't know. IANAL.
In the past they were the primary OS/UI provider for Linux based Acer netbooks which are sold everywhere, they also had quite a presence at the meego conf so while they might well be located in Asia they're products certainly aren't restricted to there. Peter _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
