Re: Question: is the following paragraph in violation of OSD6
Bruce Perens via License-discuss <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Oct 2024 22:04:36 -0700
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On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 9:08 PM Roland Turner via License-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > On 4/10/24 04:12, Lucy Brown via License-discuss wrote: > I'd suggest that there are better ways of drafting this, in particular > that it needs to be clear in a legally robust sense what the Standard > Version is > Good catch. The obvious thing you should do, Lucy, is file a trademark. Or two, one for public use and one for use with the definitive version. And make a policy for them. Debian's trademark policy is one example, see https://www.debian.org/trademark. This is not to say that you should actually pursue creating a new copyright license for software. You probably should find an approved one that you like and make a trademark policy in a separate document. See recent discussion on this list for why. Also, please be aware that there are different main kinds of intellectual property: copyright, patent, trademark, moral rights, trade secret. All of these have different complications in law that you may not be aware of. You get your copyright automatically the moment you type something in ("affix it in a permanent medium", to be technical). You do _not_ get your trademark without filing and paying, and even though you have stated your preference for the representation of the original version in your license, you would probably find it unnecessarily difficult to enforce without a trademark. For the nerds: I was able to think of three unusual forms of intellectual property: mask rights, appellations, the Smokey Bear Act and its ilk. Any more? Thanks Bruce _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org