RE: Hopefully last draft of AL

Garrett Goebel wrote:
>
>From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > >Heh.  One of my goals was to find a way to state what I thought
> > >was the core feeling of the Artistic License in a sound way.
> > >Saying that you are public domain is fine except that it invites
> > >every variant to call itself perl, which is something Larry went
> > >out of his way to avoid.
> > >
> > >I think that was very, very wise.
> >
> > Perhaps. I'm rather fond of keeping at least some level of
> > control myself, but at this point I just don't think that
> > the possible abuses are worth the hassles that putting
> > reasonable limits takes, nor the restrictions it would
> > possibly place on legit usages.
> >
> > You don't, after all, find too many people trying to pass
> > themselves off as Shakespeare or Lewis Caroll... :)
>
>Can't a trademark be used to protect "Perl", even if the code is in the
>public domain?

Yes..if someone is ready to actively defend it.  Can you picture
Larry sending a ton of "cease and desist" letters over every
little trivial infringement?  It is that or lose it...

Cheers,
Ben
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