Guys, LOGOS AND TRADEMARKS (Trademark Law) cannot be GPL'd (Copyright
Law). They will always be owned by an entity and under Trademark law,
that owner MUST enforce compliance or else they loose their rights to
the trademark. (See all the Australian / use of Linux press articles,
Linus' explanation, etc). It's a simple matter of protecting the
names/trademarks. So for instance, MSFT can't start distributing Suse
Linux next week - something the trademark owner would obviously like to
protect/prevent.
Take a look at Whitebox Linux: They take Red Hat's distro, strip the
logos/trademarks, and repackage it. It's that simple. This is no
different with Suse than with Red Hat or Ubuntu or Gentoo (yes,
Ubuntu/Debian/Gentoo all own their trademarks and are no different). Why
is this so difficult to understand? It does not prevent you from doing
anything but violate Novell and Suse's trademarks. Meaning, you cannot
sell Novell branded CD/DVD's to a company using Novell's name and
Trademarks.
So no, you will never see anything in the GPL that affects trademark law
protected things like Logos. It just can't/will never happen. The OSS
Distro has only GPL/FOSS licensed works as far as I've read so there
should be no problems here - just don't infringe on the marks.
And no I do not work for Novell/Suse. I'm just calling it as it is.
Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
2005/10/11, Anders Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:33, Cristian Rodriguez wrote:
kde-suse,
KDE suse is QPL licensed
If you're referring to kdebase3-SuSE, that's GPL as far as I can see, but
note
that it doesn't apply to the various logos and trademarks that this
package
(and others) contains
I don't found nothing in the GPL licence that indicate that the logos and
trademark doesn't apply:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
If that was the intention of SUSE they make a mistake choosing a GPL licence
for package with media included
--
Marcel Mourguiart
