On 2004-03-02 23:48:35 +0000 selussos <mgr@x-oz.com> wrote:
Why does this clause attempt to use a copyright licence forbid basic rights granted in most trademark law? [...]This clause is also in the X.org license and is found throughout X.We chose to be specific because we are the _only_ copyright holder, whichis not the case, as you will notice, for X.org. Thanks for letting me clear that one up.
I'm sorry to write that I don't think you answered my question above at all, but stated a case where the questionable term is in a different copyright licence.
However, I think the use is significantly different. The copyright permissions granted by the X.org licence found at http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html do not seem to be conditional on that term. The permissions of the X-Oz licence are.
Could you please look at the X.org and X-Oz licences again and notice this difference? If you want to mimic the X.org licence, then will you make that clause a notice in the footer instead, please? Copyright licence conditions are the wrong way to police trademarks.
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