Re: [ox-en] RedHat and Fedora and SuSE and Novell
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 17:14:16 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Martin Hardie wrote:
Chris posted the link: http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/
They are a form of Exclusive rights/ip rights are they not?
How come we feel so comforatble (or some of us do) with these companies
closing up their property in this way?
To me trade marks have always seemed like a commercial equivalent to a
personal name. So just like it seems only right that software authors
can put their name on something they write, companies can put their
trade mark on something they sponsor/pay for/organise. If I join
someone's project, I don't expect to remove their name from code;
similarly with Fedora - if the name upsets anyone, why not join a
non-commercial project like Debian instead? Asking to remove the name
seems childish.
Is that a naive reaction? I hadn't thought about the topic before, and it
was just my immediate response.
Graham
Felix raised it another way I think on nettime the other day:
"[This is unlikely to be a legal case, though from a semiotic point of view,
it's nevertheless puzzling. Is using images that are released under the GPL
the same than using source code released the GPL? Is including existing
images into new images, in this case, a screenshot of a kde desktop in a tv
series, the same as including existing source code into a new source code?
Felix]
Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Friday 31/Oct/2003, @17:09
from the 24h-to-3.2beta dept.
http://dot.kde.org/1067616574/"
So why is some property/info seen as "wanting to be free" whilst other types
are regarded as fair game for being treated as exclusive property?
Thanks
Martin
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