Re: Hinner EDV: Correct Logo Usage?
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> > Please escalate this to the DPL and/or SPI. He certainly doesn't have a
> >> > legal right to use that logo,
> >> Huh? It's about to be relicensed under the MIT license.
> > And enforced as a trademark, which he's currently misusing?
> Sorry, I fail to see how you can do this without losing your
> credibility. The MIT license specifically gives one permission "to
> deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish" etc.
What rock have you been hiding under for the past two years while there has
been an ongoing, project-wide discussion about how to handle our logos in a
manner that allows us to protect trademarks while respecting the DFSG?
> MIT license. Imagine what happened if our upstreams adopted this
> approach.
Lots of our upstreams hold trademarks.
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