On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 09:23 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
So according to you any free software with a trademark is non-free software? Good luck getting anyone including FSF to agree with that interpretation.
Rahul
I'm sure they will. Trademark restrictions violate one of the four freedoms and if you want I can ask Richard Stallman directly if this trademark rule makes software non-free. Actually I'll just go ahead and do it just to prove a point.
If I wanted to Fork Fedora, and I called it Fedora, i'd soon see a letter from Redhat legal. I'm not free to use the name. Thus, if I fork Fedora I am required by trademark law to rename it or be in violation.
You might consider taking this discussion to the legal alias and talking it over there. It seems to be beyond 'devel' at the moment.
thanks -sv