RE: Hopefully last draft of AL

[email protected] (Garrett Goebel) Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:18:47 -0500
Newsgroups perl.perl6.licenses
Message-ID <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028702F8F@EXCH_MISSION>
From: Ben Tilly [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >
> > 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...

Isn't there (or couldn't there be) a "Perl Foundation" to provide such
services?

Garrett