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On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 05:10:46PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> What we're doing here is essentially licensing our trademark, based on |
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> various conditions. Therefore, this page _is_ a trademark license and |
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> needs all the things they need. |
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It might be worth mentioning that for the time being the Gentoo Foundation |
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cannot do anything as long as the trademark/logo isn't transferred. In other |
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words, don't go mentioning cases in this thread - we can't do anything |
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except taking note of it. |
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> Trademark law in the U.S. basically dictates that if others are using |
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> our trademark in our area, they need to be either licensed or |
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> cease-and-desisted shortly after we become aware of them. If we just |
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> ignore them, the trademark's considered abandoned and we lose its |
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> ownership. |
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Not really, you can also use a "Fair Use Guideline". See |
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http://www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml#fairuse for an example. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good. |
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(oo) Sven Vermeulen |
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(__) http://www.gentoo.org Documentation & PR |