Re: New Ion3 licence
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:09:21PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > 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?
> IANAL, but I think you can hardly have a "trademark license" if it's not
> registered.
Why not? Someone may dispute whether the license has any legal *force*, but
in law you can provide a license to just about anything you're willing to
assert ownership over... including, practically speaking, things you don't
have any legal right to (such as bullshit software patents).
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