Re: Trade Mark issue

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:00:14PM -0500, brian d foy wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Adam
> Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > But in all practicality, unless you are making money or harming them, 
> > you aren't a target. Just don't bring their attention to it.
> 
> That's not really true. In the US, trademark holders are required to
> defend their marks or risk diluting them. It doesn't have anything to
> do with money or demonstrable damages. The country of registration
> often doesn't matter because of international agreements to respect
> these things.
> 
> Having said that, just leave it alone. :)

I see no problem with trademarks in module / distribution names so long as
you clearly acknowledge the trademark in the docs (e.g., at least README & Foo.pm)

Tim.