Re: License change
Ben Hutchings <ben-/[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:33 +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > (Hmm... I wonder where the first try wen't.) > > As a further note, I consider the restrictions on the name use > retroactive: this is also an issue of trademark law, and as the > author, I am the (unregistered) trademark holder for Ion, Ion3, > etc. IANAL, but I think you are too late to make a trademark claim against modified or outdated versions of Ion3 not labelled as such, having allowed them in the past. > The new license and copyright law merely act as additional > enforcement devices. They certainly allow you to give rather more specific permissions and restrictions to distributors than trademark law supports. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.
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