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Re: New Ion3 licence



On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 13:33 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 12:22 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:00:06AM +0100, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > But if I rename before uploading the package to Debian, then that
> > > > provision is nullified.  So I think the licence would then be free in so
> > > > far as it applied to the Debian package.  Right?
> > > 
> > > Note the wording makes it pretty much apply to everything, including the
> > > renamed version debian would redistribute, so, for example, derivative
> > > distributions should use yet another name...
> > 
> > Ah, I see the problem, but I'm sure that's unintentional and could be
> > fixed.
> > 
> > However, this is now moot as it seems others have persuaded him to use
> > separate copyright (LGPL, as before) and trademark licences.
> 
> To have a trademark license, ion3 should be a trademark in the first
> place. Is it ?

It's not a *registered* trademark, but it may yet be a trademark, as the
author claims.  I don't think we really want to test that claim, do we?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

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