Glenn McIntosh
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.
As I wrote in the a
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
On 21/07/13 13:02, Ben Finney wrote:
> Adam Bolte 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 redistribution in
(You've replied to a message but quoted content from a different one.
I've changed the Subject accordingly.)
Glenn McIntosh
writes:
> I feel that patent law in particular is more important issue.
Sure. Feel free to start a different thread about that :-)
> I'm not convinced that trademarks are
Adam Bolte
writes:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:23:08PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Here is an excerpt from my response
>
> Just an excerpt? :)
Yes, I excerpted only the part of general software-freedom interest
(beyond the specific query that started the thread at the ‘debian-legal’
forum). I
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:23:08PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Here is an excerpt from my response
Just an excerpt? :)
> as a way of raising the topic for general discussion aside from that
> specific example. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts.
Here's my opinion:
It depends on what compr
