Wes Turner writes: > [Continuing to play devil's advocate for the sake of clarification]
I will answer briefly here, but for further discussion, I will go to personal mail. (I don't recommend that, I'm really at the limit of things I ever knew well. ;-) > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull < > turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > > The legal theory is that the name "Python" is reserved so that > > users can know that Python-Dev's strict (or not so, YMMV) QA > > policies have been applied > > These are QA'd: I should have put "QA" in scare quotes. It's not about what actually happens in Python, it's the legal theory that as a trademark of the PSF it carries the PSF's "reputational capital", whatever that may be. > There's really a "ship of theseus" argument: it is defacto standard De jure in the U.S. (and most jurisdictions I know about) doesn't much care about "de facto" if it gets to court.[1] > How extensive those patches are is likely irrelevant to a trademark > dispute (of which there is none here). Ah, but there *is* a trademark dispute that is relevant here: a future one. For other practical considerations, Nick's explanation of distro (or Red Hat or Fedora?) considerations was helpful to me (as I said, it's been a decade or so since I looked closely at this stuff). Steve Footnotes: [1] Japan is interesting: it rarely gets to court, so bureaucrats can effectively sanction illegal activity if it's considered to be socially beneficial. A recent example I heard about is community gardens, which violate some nitpicky agricultural laws, but help preserve greenery and feed the impecunious elderly in large cities. There are less savory examples, too. :-( _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
