Re: apache non-free?
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [Your Mail-Followup-To is either broken, or we've found a postfix bug.]
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:02:23PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> > In TeX and LaTeX, programs are allowed to be modified, but must change
> > their names. This is considered free. The situation with Apache is
> > different: the word 'Apache' may not be used at all in the name of the
> > derivative. But I might have misunderstood some point.
>
> Uh, if they're that strict about it, what they really want is trademark
> protection.
yes, this may very well be the case. I think it would be a good idea to
approach them with this suggestion, that they remove this from the license
and use trademark protection instead.
In any way, I agree with Thomas on this issue.
Thanks,
Marcus
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