Re: [free-software-melb] Conflict between software freedom and trademark restrictions

2013-07-22 Thread Glenn McIntosh
On 21/07/13 13:02, Ben Finney wrote: I think that trademark has a significant benefit to society, which is to limit the tendencies of vendors to misrepresent their modified works as though being whatever the customer is looking for — even if that vendor has made incompatible or undesirable

Re: [free-software-melb] Conflict between software freedom and trademark restrictions

2013-07-22 Thread Ben Finney
Glenn McIntosh neonsig...@memepress.org writes: Ben, I'd be interested in your (and others) opinion on the way Trisquel have given guidelines for the use of their trademark (http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trademark-guidelines). Though I'm not sure what the legal status of such guidelines are.

Re: [free-software-melb] Conflict between software freedom and trademark restrictions

2013-07-21 Thread Adam Bolte
On 21/07/13 13:02, Ben Finney wrote: Adam Bolte abo...@systemsaviour.com writes: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:23:08PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: It depends on what compromises the trademark owner is able/prepared to make. My gut feeling is that if the trademarks do not permit modification and