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Re: Trademark license compatibility with GPL and/or DFSG



On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Ken Arromdee 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".

Yes, and there should be no need to use the trademark in any way that
requires a license for it. Purely descriptive, accurate use of
trademarked terms is always permitted.

Just be careful. You can call it "driver for bluetooth", since it
is. You can't call it "bluetooth" without permission, since it isn't.

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