Re: Trademark license compatibility with GPL and/or DFSG
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> >They want their trademarks stripped from modified
> >code that is essentially different in intent and purpose from the
> >original code.
> Well, that's fine; we don't want to use their trademarks for things which
> aren't designed to work with their hardware, now do we? (At least, except in
> a historical context, which certainly wouldn't be a trademark violation.)
What does "trademarks stripped" mean though? Does it mean they want the
product not to be called <trademark>? Or do they want every single line of
code that has the name in it removed, so, for instance, a help box or even
code comments that say "Based on the driver for <trademark>" must be removed?
And what if the trademark is used in a different context; would that be
like the Apache license that prohibits you from using it in a program called
"Apache Helicpoter Simulation"?
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