Re: Trademark license compatibility with GPL and/or DFSG
On 5/19/05, Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net> wrote:
> Isn't it always legal to use a trademark to refer to the product in question?
> If you have a driver for a piece of hardware that has the trademarked name X,
> it should be legal to name it "driver for X". (Of course, what is legal and
> what keeps you from getting sued aren't nececssarily the same.)
Sure, the question is "what is the product in question?" and only the
trademark holder gets to define that.
If they claim that they have to ship it, or that's not the product, they
can do so. Their only limitation is that whatever definition they choose
they have to be cnosistent about it.
--
Raul
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