At 8:20 AM -0600 on 10/22/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Licence: OPENCARD(tm) is released to the public domain. This licence implies
> no right to use of the trademarks of The OpenCard Consortium.
>
>OPENCARD is a trademark of The OpenCard Consortium.
>
>
>Eric(?), would something this simple work?
>
>No because you imply two different and contradictory things : a license (which
>is a private property interest) and public domain. It would be interpreted as
>a donation of private property to the public domain.
Would it work without the word "licence"?
>
>That said, it quite clearly prohibits using the trademark - though we still
>need a different name because openCard is already in use!
>
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