Re: license issuse in qterm

["John Halton" <johnhalton@gmail.com>]

On Jan 10, 2008 8:52 AM, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> wrote:
> >       and if the derived work is incompatible with the protocol
> >       description in the RFC file, it must be called by a name other
> >       than "ssh" or "Secure Shell".
>
> This may be a problem.  However, to me it seems this just clarifies how
> he thinks about the use of his trademarks.  They're probably not
> registered, but they still have some protection (assuming he is the
> right person to claim them).  If he wants to use these names as
> trademarks, AFAIK he is allowed to.

I agree. The restriction relates to (probably unregistered) trade
marks rather than copyright. It may be inconvenient in some
circumstances, and could be expressed more clearly, but it's not
non-free.

John

(TINLA)