Francesco Poli f...@firenze.linux.it writes:
p.s. I think the FSF in general plays it quite fair; I'd treat a
for-profit company with a lot more skepticism.
I don't think that requiring copyright assignment from contributors is
a fair game, not even when practiced by the FSF.
However, if you
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Gerber van der Graaf
gerber.vdgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Is Pepsi Cola is a trademark infringement of Coca Cola?
Cola is a common word that describes the product, so no. If the word
FOAM were a word frequently used to describe things of this type with no
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:27:38PM +0100, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
OpenCFD (R) has issued new guidelines for their tradmark OpenFOAM:
http://www.openfoam.com/legal/trademark-guidelines.php
My question is if these are legal: not allowing hydrostaticFoam as your
self-written new solver for
Gerber van der Graaf gerber.vdgr...@gmail.com writes:
I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor transfers
his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software: actually it's
what the FSF does... :-(
I didn't know that and that's quite strong. Do they also erase the
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:36:16 +0900 Miles Bader wrote:
Gerber van der Graaf gerber.vdgr...@gmail.com writes:
I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor transfers
his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software: actually it's
what the FSF does... :-(
I didn't
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes:
Gerber van der Graaf gerber.vdgr...@gmail.com writes:
I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor
transfers his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software:
actually it's what the FSF does... :-(
[…]
p.s. I think the FSF in
I have to correct something: Holger Marschall, the author of the
OpenFOAM Documentation Project, explained me he only received some
emails where OpenCFD threatened him to write a letter of legally valid
cease and desist letter. He actually did not receive it as he put down
the website. Also,
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:04:30 +0100 Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
I have to correct something: Holger Marschall, the author of the
OpenFOAM Documentation Project, explained me he only received some
emails where OpenCFD threatened him to write a letter of legally valid
cease and desist letter.
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 18:20 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:04:30 +0100 Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
I have to correct something: Holger Marschall, the author of the
OpenFOAM Documentation Project, explained me he only received some
emails where OpenCFD threatened him
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:31:28 +0100 Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
Hi,
Hi!
I have a question concerning trademark name infringement for a GPL
software I and a colleagues are working on. The company OpenCFD
(http://www.cfd-online.com/)
I think you meant http://www.openfoam.com/ here...
issued
Hi,
I have a question concerning trademark name infringement for a GPL
software I and a colleagues are working on. The company OpenCFD
(http://www.cfd-online.com/) issued software for Computational Fluids
Dynamics (CFD) called 'OpenFOAM' under the GPL license
(http://www.openfoam.com/). The
Thanks very much for your replies. Gerber
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 08:59 -0800, r...@packetlaw.com wrote:
On Nov 18, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
I have a question concerning trademark name infringement for a GPL
software I and a colleagues are working on. The company OpenCFD
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