On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Danese Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahem. Excuse me, but Tiki Dare is the trademark lawyer who brought us the > ridiculous naming policies around Java products when she was at Sun... (as > well as the much-maligned OpenOfficeDotOrg). IMHO its quite possible to > kill a brand with tedious correctness from a Trademark protection point of > view. >
Ahoy. It is also possible to kill a brand with lax incorrectness by non-lawyers, from a trademark protection point of view. So let's just agree that no one here is interested in killing a brand, unless they explicitly state otherwise. Be charitable and give the benefit of the doubt on that. -Rob > Danese > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A good read on trademarks and open source software. I highly >> recommend PPMC members read this over, and especially note how >> trademarks can become invalid due to ""naked licensing". >> >> http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/viewFile/11/38 >> >> -Rob >>
